Caspar David Friedrich

German Caspar David Friedrich was a skilled painter who was a key part of the Roamnticist art movement which was at its strongest in the 19th century before being superceded by the French impressionists. This article looks deeply into the career of Caspar David Friedrich and considers which were his finest oil paintings of all.

Friedrich's most famous painting was certainly his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog masterpiece which depicts a character in the foreground looking out over a sprawling landscape which is covered by a sea of clouds, with various mountains on show at the furthest point away from him. Further to Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, other notable paintings from this artist included Monk by Sea, Tree of Crows, Winter Landscape with a Church, Morning Mist in the Mountains, On Board a Sailing Ship, Woman at the Window and Chalk Cliffs of Rugen.

German art has a history of achievement within various different art movements over many centuries but Romanticism is not something that they were particularly involved with in great numbers, which makes the contributions of Friedrich even more important. Other notable German painters included Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein and Egon Schiele, which underlines the country's diverse artistic ability which has been spread over many different artistic styles.

Caspar David Friedrich has a common approach to his art of depicting small characters in the foreground of a large countryside scene which would enable the artist to get across the idea of perspective through the comparison between the foreground and background elements.

Whilst Friedrich was from Germany, other notable Romanticists included British JMW Turner who lived devoted himself to landscape painting with a painting style that included emotional feelings of the artist, which is what has made this art movement so popular. Turner became a highly significant landscape painter and was joined by Joh Constable.

Conclusively, Caspar David Friedrich was an important contributor to the Romanticist are movement which also took in great artists from Britain and France. Caspar David Friedrich was undoubtedly the most impressive German of this style and his achievements encouraged others for his native country to follow in his footsteps. The few other German romanticists who did exist around this time were in many cases close to Friedrich and he would open up his studio at this time to many who would share ideas and techniques in the hope of each developing their own careers.

You can read more about Caspar David Friedrich at Caspardavidfriedrich.net.

There are also Friedrich paintings at the Oil Painting Shop.

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