Lives of Caspar David Friedrich
Seiten
2025
Pallas Athene Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84368-254-7 (ISBN)
Pallas Athene Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84368-254-7 (ISBN)
These reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich by fellow romantic painters and poets give a fascinating picture of the impact of his art on his contemporaries.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the French sculptor David d’Angers, the artist who ‘discovered the tragic in landscape’. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compositions that celebrate the riches and the melancholy of a cosmos fully imbued with the divine, while never losing an almost hallucinatory engagement with reality. For all their clarity, they are the quintessence of Romanticism.
Almost too familiar today, to Friedrich’s contemporaries these extraordinary paintings were astonishing and challenging. This volume records the reactions of some of the most prominent figures of German Romanticism: Kleist, Brentano and Arnim (in a witty series of dialogues between gallery visitors alternately bewitched and bewildered by Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea), the painter and physiologist Carus, the psychologist Schubert, the Russian poet and translator Zhukovsky. A piece by Goethe and his colleague Heinrich Meyer records the somewhat baffled admiration of the earlier generation; and Friedrich’s own Commandments of Art breathes the almost overwhelming passion with which he approached his vocation. An introduction by the leading scholar Johannes Grave situates Friedrich’s art and its reception in the context of the Romantic movement both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the French sculptor David d’Angers, the artist who ‘discovered the tragic in landscape’. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compositions that celebrate the riches and the melancholy of a cosmos fully imbued with the divine, while never losing an almost hallucinatory engagement with reality. For all their clarity, they are the quintessence of Romanticism.
Almost too familiar today, to Friedrich’s contemporaries these extraordinary paintings were astonishing and challenging. This volume records the reactions of some of the most prominent figures of German Romanticism: Kleist, Brentano and Arnim (in a witty series of dialogues between gallery visitors alternately bewitched and bewildered by Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea), the painter and physiologist Carus, the psychologist Schubert, the Russian poet and translator Zhukovsky. A piece by Goethe and his colleague Heinrich Meyer records the somewhat baffled admiration of the earlier generation; and Friedrich’s own Commandments of Art breathes the almost overwhelming passion with which he approached his vocation. An introduction by the leading scholar Johannes Grave situates Friedrich’s art and its reception in the context of the Romantic movement both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
Johannes Grave is a professor of art history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He has written several books about Caspar David Friedrich, is co-editor of the scholarly edition of the artist’s writings and was external co-curator of the major anniversary exhibition Caspar David Friedrich. Art for a New Age at the Kunsthalle Hamburg (2023/24).
Various sensations in front of The Monk by the Sea
HEINRICH VON KLEIST, ACHIM VON ARNIM AND CLEMENS VON BRENTANO
p. 85
Reminiscences of Friedrich
GOTTHILF HEINRICH VON SCHUBERT
p. 99
Correspondence with the Russian Court
VASILY ANDREYEVICH ZHUKOWSKI
p. 125
Note on texts and authors
p. 139
List of illustrations
p. 141
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lives of the Artists |
| Einführung | Johannes Grave |
| Zusatzinfo | 46 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 115 x 145 mm |
| Gewicht | 162 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84368-254-0 / 1843682540 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84368-254-7 / 9781843682547 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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