Caspar David Friedrich
Many many years ago when i did Open University one of the second level courses i took was on The Enlightenment. A fascinating area of history and arts. One of my favourite painters from that period is Caspar David Friedrich whom was an 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter and generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.
His forte was the contemplation of nature, in which he seeked 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"
So here are a couple of my favourites -
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
c. 1818
Medium Oil-on-canvas
Dimensions 98.4 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in)
Location Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Galerie Neue Meister, 1819/20
His forte was the contemplation of nature, in which he seeked 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"
So here are a couple of my favourites -
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
c. 1818
Medium Oil-on-canvas
Dimensions 98.4 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in)
Location Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Galerie Neue Meister, 1819/20