Biography of Caspar Friedrich

The art and architecture Caspar David Frederick: the master of silence is forgotten, incomprehensible, rethought: the flight from the birthday of Caspar David Friedrich as an occasion to look at his work again in a new way. Janet Schayan, he is so small that you hardly not notice him. He looks at black waves alone, hangs over the horizon the same dark and frightening sky. Only at the very top of the picture is a certain clearance is planned - the gray color is replaced by a delicate celestial azure.

These sweeping colored stripes seem almost abstract and ultra -modern. Caspar David Frederick wrote them between and years, more than years before the beginning of modernity in art. Today, the painting "Monk by the Sea" is located in the old National Gallery in Berlin. The same as many of us today? A person who is in the grip of the elements between the hope of salvation and falling into the abyss?

In the silent paintings of Frederick, everyone sees and, perhaps, saw at all times something of his own. One thing can be said with confidence: with landscape painting of the 19th century, this work has nothing to do. She is original and unique. Perhaps this is the expected big explosion of the Art Nouveau era. Nature as the central motive in the paintings of Caspar David Frederick but his other works are not paintings depicting real reality, but rather made by oil collages: he re -collected elements of the objective world on canvas - trees, hills, clouds, clouds that he captured in his album for sketches during walks in nature - placing them in a different order and in a different ranger, in a different ranging, in a different ranging, and at a different ranging racketeering portraying in a special light.

His idea was as follows: "The artist should write not only what he sees in front of himself, but also what he sees inside himself." When people appear in his paintings, we see them from the back. In his biographical bestseller, Zauber Der Stille “Magic of Silence”, which was released in the year, art critic Florian Illyeses writes that Frederick - a master of contemplation of nature and its deep emotional experience was simply unable to draw figures and faces.

However, perhaps the artist simply wanted us to see the people who examine his paintings at the world he created from the point of view of figures depicted on his canvases. A long way to the title of the main artist of German romanticism the main topics in the work of Frederick were the spiritual knowledge of the nature and loneliness of man. But this was not always the case.

Caspar David Friedrich, who was born in the town of Grainwald on the Baltic Sea in the year and died in Dresden in the year, was a successful artist during his lifetime. So, the Prussian king himself acquired his painting “Monk by the Sea” for his son. But only a decade later, often melancholy-brown mysterious motives and the mystification of nature ceased to correspond to the trends of the time.

Goethe’s poet, in front of which Frederick bowed, spoke rather rudely about his painting. Frederick's name was forgotten even to the death of the artist. Many of his paintings - including “Wanderer” and “Cretaceous rocks” - had been without attention for a long time and were even considered lost.

A few years later, having seen something “Nordic” and “German” in his works, the National Socialists used his work for propaganda purposes. In the year, in honor of the flying of the artist’s birth, his paintings were first shown at a large exhibition, which became the result of the fruitful cooperation of the Kunsthalla art museum in Hamburg and the Museum of Museums “State Art Assembly of Dresden”, which joined the “iron curtain”, in the then divided Germany.

And Caspar David Friedrich later became a new superstar of romanticism. His paintings began to re -investigate and interpret - the political artist Frederick was in the spotlight, who supported the liberation struggle against Napoleon. Today, some even consider this modest and, perhaps, a somewhat eccentric nature lover, the first climate defender. Be that as it may, his art affects eternal topics, arouses emotions and continues to inspire other artists.

Three exhibitions in honor of the flight since the birth of Caspar David Friedrich on the year of the summer of this “master of silence”, everyone can make his own impression about him: three large exhibitions are devoted to this romance, each of which will help to look at the artist from different points of view. The Hamburg Kunsthalle considers the relationship of man and nature in the work of Frederick.

The old National Gallery in Berlin talks about the role of the museum in the revival of interest in the works of Frederick in the German Empire. Dresden’s state art meetings are explored as a city in which the artist lived for more than 40 years influenced his work. The joint web portal of the three museums offers a virtual acquaintance with the works of Caspar David Friedrich to those who cannot personally come to Germany.