Art · 1774–1840
Caspar David Friedrich
Romantic landscape painter known for Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Did you know?His work fell into obscurity for decades before being rediscovered by art historians at an exhibition in Berlin in 1906.
Caspar David Friedrich (German:; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world.
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- Age at death
- 65
- Years since death
- 186
- Born
- September 5, 1774 · Greifswald, Germany
- Died
- May 7, 1840
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Known for
- Art
Family
- Father
- Adolph Gottlieb Friedrich
- Mother
- Sophia Dorothea Bechly
- Spouse
- Caroline Friedrich
- Child
- Adolf Friedrich
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