Caspar David Friedrich

1774–1840 · Romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

38 paintings

• Nightly cloudy sky / Evening (1824)
• Rocky ravine in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (1822)
• Sea beach in the fog (1807)
• Seashore with fisherman (1807)
• The Watzmann (1820)
• Solitary Tree (1822)
• Hochgebirge (Schweizer Landschaft) (1824)
• Two men contemplating the Moon (1820)
• Mountainous River Landscape, night (1830)
• Bohemian Landscape (1828)
• Winter landscape (1811)
• Reefs by the Seashore (1824)
• Flat Countryside (1822)
• Northern Sea in the Moonlight (1823)
• Inside the forest in the moonlight (1820)
• Monastery ruin Eldena (1824)
• The Cemetery Gate (1825)
• Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds (1835)
• Man and Woman contemplating the moon (1824)
• Segelschiff (1815)
• Sunburst in the Riesengebirge (1835)
• Walk at Dusk (1837)
• Moonrise over the Sea (1821)
• Swans in the reeds at the first dawn (1832)
• Sea Shore (Fishing-Nets) (1835)
• Memories of the Giant Mountains (1835)
• Ruins of the Oybin (1835)
• On a Sailing Ship (1818)
• Morning in the Mountains (1822)
• Sunset (1837)
• Seaside moonlight (1818)
• Two Men Contemplating the Moon (ca. 1825–30)
• Winter Landscape (1811)
• Northern Landscape, Spring (c. 1825)
• Giant Mountains (View of the Small Sturmhaube from Warmbrunn) (1810)
• Efter stormen (1817)
• Easter Morning (1828)
• Fishing boat between two rocks on the beach of the Baltic Sea (1830)