Caspar David Friedrich

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i'd like to know what you think about cdf. over to you...

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 15 February 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

His landscapes are frighteningly bleak.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 15 February 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

They look unbearably cliched now, for me. I don't like him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 15 February 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Who is he?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just mutter that you've had enough of Sehnsucht and Einsamkeit and let's just bloody well get on with it and don't you think that Andres Serrano is really on to something.

― Candidia, Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear. I think he's grebt. There's one in the National Gallery you can see for free.

I like this one too, and one in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich which I can't find an image of just now.

Most of those bleak landscapes contain images of hope or eternal life(like an evergreen pine tree or two).

― Mooro (Mooro), Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Several in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

http://www.smpk.de/ang/s.html

― Candidia, Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with martin, that cheap german romnaticism.

except i find his christ lost in the woods paintings mystical and moving, and deeply spirtual.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 15 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Easton is correct: much of CDF indeed incorporates a too-easy, false nostalgia, packaged as 19th century-style new age spirituality. Occasionally, however, Herr Friedrich transcends the commonplace, the Alltags, and achieves greatness. To wit:

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/mansion/5028/sacredelv.jpg

― Candidia, Saturday, 15 February 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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