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Caspar David Friedrich

(Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich (German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) 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". (From Wikipedia)

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The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the U.S.S.R. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, c1990), ed. by Sabine Rewald, contrib. by Robert Rosenblum and B. Asvarishch (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

5 additional books about Caspar David Friedrich in the extended shelves:

Caspar David Friedrich: "Gott, Freiheit, Vaterland." (B. Cassirer, 1915), by Andreas Aubert, G. J. Kern, and Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Caspar David Friedrich und die Landschaft der Romantik. (Mauritius Verlag, 1924), by Willi Wolfradt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kaspar David Friedrich : ein Führer zur Friedrich-Sammlung der National-Galerie (J. Bard, 1921), by Ludwig Justi and National-Galerie (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Caspar David Friedrich (Gedruckt im Auftrage des Vereins von Kunstfreunden von 1870, 1920), by Victor Dirksen and Caspar David Friedrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Caspar David Friedrich in seinen Meisterwerken (Furche-Verlag, 1925), by Kurt Karl Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust)

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Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840: Bekenntnisse (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1924), also by Kurt Karl Eberlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840: Caspar David Friedrich (Gedruckt im Auftrage des Vereins von Kunstfreunden von 1870, 1920), also by Victor Dirksen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840: Caspar David Friedrich; die romantische landschaft (Strecker und Schröder, 1922), also by Otto Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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