Caspar David Friedrich (German painter) 1774 - 1840
Wrack im Mondschein (Wreck in the Moonlight), ca. 1835
oil on canvas
31.3 x 42.5 cm.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Friedrich's last oil paintings such as the Wreck in the Moonlight and The Riesengebirge (both in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin), executed c. 1835 before he suffered a stroke on 26 June 1835 that left him partially paralysed in the arms and legs, around 1835, condense motifs typical of Friedrich into definitive statements which etch themselves indelibly upon the memory with their inner grandeur, their solemnity and their formal sovereignty.
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Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.[2] He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
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