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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)
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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

    By Peter Russell and Caspar David Friedrich

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    Widely regarded as the leading figure of the German Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich produced vast and mysterious landscapes and seascapes that explored the theme of human helplessness against the forces of nature, establishing the idea of the Sublime as a central concern of Romanticism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Friedrich’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)


    * The complete paintings of Caspar David Friedrich — over 120 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order
    * Includes reproductions of rare works
    * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information
    * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Friedrich’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books
    * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
    * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings
    * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view
    * Includes a selection of the artist’s drawings
    * Scholarly ordering of plates into chronological order


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books


    CONTENTS:


    The Highlights
    SELF PORTRAIT, 1800
    THE TETSCHEN ALTAR
    MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH RAINBOW
    THE MONK BY THE SEA
    THE ABBEY IN THE OAK WOOD
    THE CHASSEUR IN THE WOODS
    HUTTEN’S TOMB
    WOMAN BEFORE THE SETTING SUN
    WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG
    CHALK CLIFFS ON RÜGEN
    TWO MEN CONTEMPLATING THE MOON
    MORNING
    THE LONELY TREE
    MOONRISE BY THE SEA
    THE TREE OF CROWS
    THE SEA OF ICE
    THE STAGES OF LIFE


    The Paintings
    THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS
    ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS


    The Drawings
    LIST OF DRAWINGS


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelphi Classics
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781786565006
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

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      Delphi Complete Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated) - Peter Russell

      Caspar David Friedrich

      (1774–1840)

      Contents

      The Highlights

      SELF PORTRAIT, 1800

      THE TETSCHEN ALTAR

      MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH RAINBOW

      THE MONK BY THE SEA

      THE ABBEY IN THE OAK WOOD

      THE CHASSEUR IN THE WOODS

      HUTTEN’S TOMB

      WOMAN BEFORE THE SETTING SUN

      WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG

      CHALK CLIFFS ON RÜGEN

      TWO MEN CONTEMPLATING THE MOON

      MORNING

      THE LONELY TREE

      MOONRISE BY THE SEA

      THE TREE OF CROWS

      THE SEA OF ICE

      THE STAGES OF LIFE

      The Paintings

      THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS

      ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS

      The Drawings

      LIST OF DRAWINGS

      The Delphi Classics Catalogue

      © Delphi Classics 2016

      Version 1

      Masters of Art Series

      Caspar David Friedrich

      By Delphi Classics, 2016

      COPYRIGHT

      Masters of Art - Caspar David Friedrich

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2016.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 500 6

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      The Highlights

      Caspar David Friedrich was born the sixth of ten children on 5 September 1774, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic coast of Germany.

      Rear view of the birthplace of Caspar David Friedrich, 1844

      The birthplace today

      Friedrich’s parents: Adolph Gottlieb Friedrich and ‘Mutter Heiden’

      Caspar David Friedrich as a young man by J. L. Lund, 1800

      THE HIGHLIGHTS

      In this section, a sample of Friedrich’s most celebrated works is provided, with concise introductions, special ‘detail’ reproductions and additional biographical images.

      SELF PORTRAIT, 1800

      Born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic coast of Germany in 1774, Caspar David Friedrich was brought up in the strict Lutheran creed of his father, Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, a candle-maker and soap boiler. Friedrich endured a tragic childhood, becoming familiar with death from an early age. His mother, Sophie Dorothea Bechly, died in 1781 when he was just seven. A year later, his sister Elisabeth died, while a second sister, Maria, succumbed to typhus in 1791. However, the most severe tragedy of his childhood was the 1787 death of his younger brother Johann Christoffer, who fell through the ice of a frozen lake and drowned, while trying to rescue Caspar David, who was struggling on the ice. The harrowing event would have a lasting psychological impact on the character and life of the artist.

      Showing an early flair for drawing, Friedrich began his formal study of art in 1790 as a private student of artist Johann Gottfried Quistorp at the University of Greifswald. Quistorp would often take his students on outdoor drawing excursions, fostering an early interest in Friedrich for sketching from life outdoors. Through Quistorp, Friedrich met and was subsequently influenced by the theologian Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, who taught that through nature we could see evidence of God’s existence. Kosegarten would call nature ‘Christ’s Bible’. An isolated figure living in natural surroundings, removed from the material world, Kosegarten believed it was possible to see in natural forms the revelation of Christianity. Kosegarten would have a profound influence on Friedrich and other Romantic painters of his age, inspiring artists to look at nature as a sign of religious creation.

      Four years later, Friedrich entered the prestigious Academy of Copenhagen, where he began his education by making copies of casts from antique sculptures before proceeding to draw from life. Living in Copenhagen afforded the young painter access to the Royal Picture Gallery’s collection of seventeenth century Dutch landscape painting. At the Academy he studied under teachers such as Christian August Lorentzen and the landscape painter Jens Juel. These artists were inspired by the Sturm und Drang movement and represented a midpoint between the dramatic intensity and expressive manner of the budding Romantic aesthetic and the waning neo-classical ideal. Mood

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