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| Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter who studied at the Copenhagen Academy from 1794-98. From 1798 Friedrich lived in Dresden and became friendly with Goethe and other writers. Friedrich’s first major painting was an altarpiece painted in 1808 initiated a controversy over the use of landscape in religious subjects. His works include ‘Wreck of the Hope.’ |
 | Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers (Metropolitan Museum of Art S.) Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), a major figure in the German Romantic movement, painted sublime works representing nature at its most melancholic and desolate. One of his most famous motifs was that of two intimate figures gazing at the moon. more information>>
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