Hailed by Frank Whitford, art critic for "The Sunday Times", as the best book about this fascinating artist that I've ever read, this scholarly and thought provoking book, available again after some time out of print, casts a remarkable light on Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic ar[...]

Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the [...]

Der Maler Friedrich wurde am 5. September 1774 in Greifswald geboren. Die Namen Caspar und David, auf die er getauft wurde, kamen nicht häufig, aber doch gelegentlich in Greifswald vor, auch in seiner Generation. Sein Vater war der Seifensieder und Lichtzieher Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich (1730-1809), [...]

"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand," wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature." One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from within the confines of his studios. This breathtakin[...]

The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic painter whose importance and influence have often been underestimated. Now widely considered to be the most important German artist of his generation, Friedri[...]

The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic painter whose importance and influence have often been underestimated. Now widely considered to be the most important German artist of his generation. Friedri[...]

I samband med att Nationalmuseum i oktober öppnar den första monografiska utställningen i Norden av Caspar David Friedrich, landskapsmåleriets store särling under 1800-talet publiceras denna konstbok ut.

Utställningen och boken betonar de nordiska beröringspunkterna i Friedrichs li[...]