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Lives of Caspar David Friedrich

Name: Lives of Caspar David Friedrich
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ISBN: 9781843682547

(Autor) J.W.von Goethe

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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 Friedrich's 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 Friedrich's 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 d'Angers, 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 Friedrich's 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 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.

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Pallas Athene Publishers

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Paperback

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None

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ISBN:

9781843682547

Año de publicación:

2025

Fecha publicación:

29 de Enero de 2025

J.W.von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, poet, and philosopher best known for his epic work "Faust." His literary style merged romanticism and classicism, influencing generations of writers. Goethe's key contributions to literature include pioneering the Sturm und Drang movement and shaping German Romanticism.