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        <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)</h1>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_ArtistinhisStudio1812.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Artist in his Studio, 1812</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_SelfPortraitinChalk1810.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Self-Portrait in Chalk, 1810</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Caspar David Friedrich was a master of ethereal, symbolic landscapes. Moon-dappled valleys, enchanted forests and desolate winter nights were some of his trademarks; created in a style all his own that would later be emulated by others for years to come.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_ManandWomanContemplatingovertheMoon.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Man and Woman Contemplating Over the Moon</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_WandererAbovetheMist1818.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Wanderer Above the Mist, 1818</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_TreesintheMoonlight.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Trees in the Moonlight</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Born in Griefswald, Germany (then a Swedish territory), Friedrich studied at the Academy in Copenhagen. He would eventually settle in Dresden and paint for most of his life in Germany. The Black Forest and other wooded areas in Germany would become his studio, and he rarely traveled elsewhere to paint.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_Paysage.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Paysage</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Religious mysticism was also a theme in many of his landscapes. Whether frightening and stormy or somber, Friedrich’s religious paintings were more about symbolism than composition. In many of his landscape paintings, crucifixes are an integral part of the landscape, with mountains in the background symbolizing unmoving faith or evergreen trees symbolizing everlasting life or hope.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_CrossontheMountain.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Cross on the Mountain</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_AbbeyintheOakwood.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Abbey in the Oakwood</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">It is speculated that Friedrich’s religious influence was due to witnessing his brother’s death by drowning while ice skating on the frozen Baltic Sea. Friedrich also lost his mother and two sisters before his 18th birthday, which certainly added to his already tumultuous childhood.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_SeaofIce.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Sea of Ice</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_WinterLandscapewithChurch.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Winter Landscape with Church</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Though Friedrich painted in a somewhat Realist style, his art is considered anti-Classical. His use of light (including moonlight) was a pre-cursor for future Impressionist landscape painters. His motifs were almost fairytale-like, and his love for gothic and medieval themes was often fueled by friend and author Goethe. Friedrich’s own life was at times shrouded in mystery, as he was described by others as having a mystical quality, and led an almost monk-like lifestyle. His quarters would be minimal and he led a very solitary life, but eventually married and had children just the same.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_TwoMenObservingtheMoon.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Two Men Observing the Moon</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_TownatMoonrise.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Town at Moonrise</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">While Friedrich was finding success as a painter in Germany, his work was not widely known throughout Europe until it was plundered by Napoleon’s army. Many of his paintings were stolen from estates and private collections and taken back to the Louvre, and it was then that Northern Europe began to truly take notice of the artist. Who knows how many of his paintings didn’t make it to the Louvre, but to a private home or bartered off instead. Friedrich was not a supporter of Napoleon, and it is said that his paintings represented German patriotism in the time of the Napoleonic wars. Friedrich’s work would again be used later on as German patriotism, but unfortunately by Adolph Hitler, and some of his work was hailed as showing Aryan ideals and was used as Nazi propaganda.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/friedrich/Friedrich_SolitaryTree1821.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Solitary Tree</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Sadly, at the time of Friedrich’s death he was still a relatively unknown painter. Today his work is housed all over Europe, serving as a reminder of nature and mystery in post-medieval Germany.</p>
      
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