27,4" CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH "The Abbey in the Oakwood" painting art printed on canvas

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774 – 1840)

Title of artwork: "The Abbey in the Oakwood"

Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!

Year: 1808-1810

Technique: printed on canvas nowadays

Condition: perfect

Diagonal: 27,4" or 69,5cm.

Size: 23,6" x 13,8" (in) or 60 x 35 cm.

Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.

The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.

Color can be slightly different from the picture.

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension". Friedrich was born in the town of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea in what was at the time Swedish Pomerania. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. This shift in ideals was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable sought to depict nature as a "divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization".

Ref.: 171040002563