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Lives Of Caspar David Friedrich
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Lives Of Caspar David Friedrich
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A fascinating picture of the impact of the German Romantic landscape painter''s art on his contemporaries Visionary, disconcerting, enthralling: Caspar David Friedrichs art mined a vein of feeling completely new in painting Never before available in English, these reminiscences of the painter and assessments of his path-breaking art include texts by some of the greatest names of the German Romantic movement Goethe, Kleist, the painter Carus, the psychologist Schubert as well as Friedrichs own Commandments of Art, and letters by the Russian poet Zhukovsky 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 dAngers, the artist who discovered the tragic in landscape. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compo-sitions 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 Friedrichs contemporaries these extraordinary paint¬ings 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 Friedrichs 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 Friedrichs own Commandments of Art breathes the almost overwhelming passion with which he approached his vocation. An introduction by the leading scholar Johannes Grave situates Friedrichs art and its reception in the context of the Romantic movement both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
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| Author | Goethe, Jw Von Et Al |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781843682547 |
| Item Height | 1.3 |
| Item Length | 14.4 |
| Item Width | 11.6 |
| Publisher | Acc Art Books |
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