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Wanderer Above the Sea of Cloudsby Caspar David Friedrich
23" x 27" Framed Artwork Frame
Ships in the Harbour, 1774-1840by Caspar David Friedrich
20" x 24" Framed Art Frame
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Morning in the Mountainsby Caspar David Friedrich
21" x 18" Framed Art Frame
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Periods of Life (Lebensstufen)by Caspar David Friedrich
29" x 24" Framed Art Frame
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Mountain in the Fog, Staatliche Museen Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt, Germanyby Caspar David Friedrich
31" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Landscape with Mountainsby Caspar David Friedrich
31" x 25" Framed Art Frame
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Great Reserve near Dresden, 1832by Caspar David Friedrich
27" x 21" Framed Art Frame
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Landscape with Windmillsby Caspar David Friedrich
30" x 22" Framed Art Frame
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Moonrise on the Seashore, 1821by Caspar David Friedrich
28" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Two Men Observing the Moon, 1819-1820by Caspar David Friedrich
26" x 22" Framed Art Frame
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Cross in the Mountains 1807-1808by Caspar David Friedrich
16" x 16" Framed Art Frame
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In Memoriam JE Bremer, 1817by Caspar David Friedrich
26" x 21" Framed Art Frame
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Northern Sea by Moonlightby Caspar David Friedrich
30" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Megalithic Cairn in the Snow, c. 1820by Caspar David Friedrich
22" x 19" Framed Art Frame
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Tree with Ravens and Prehistoric Tumulus on the Baltic Coastby Caspar David Friedrich
27" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Sea-Piece by Moonlightby Caspar David Friedrich
28" x 24" Framed Art Frame
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Mountain Landscape (Felsenlandschaft im Elbsandsteingebirge), c 1822-1823by Caspar David Friedrich
24" x 29" Framed Art Frame
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Moonlit Night on the Beach, with Fishermenby Caspar David Friedrich
31" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Flat Countryside (Isle of Ruegen or near Greifswald), 1822-1823by Caspar David Friedrich
30" x 22" Framed Art Frame
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On the Shoreby Caspar David Friedrich
29" x 23" Framed Art Frame
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Caspar David Friedrich (Born 1774) was born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania. He was the sixth of ten children. He grew up under the strict Lutheran doctrine of his father Adolf Gottlieb, who was an affluent soap boiler and candle-maker. Friedrich experienced so many deaths in his family when he was still very young: his mother died when he was just seven. His brother died when he was just 13. He witnessed his other brother fall through the ice of a frozen lake and drown. His sister died in 1782, and in 1791 his second sister succumbed to typhus. The melancholy in his art is attributed by some of Friedrich's contemporaries to these childhood tragic events, yet it is as likely that his personality was naturally so inclined. Just as his letters always contained self-irony and humor. Friedrich was indeed a strange mixture of temperament, his moods ranging from the gayest humor to the gravest seriousness. Friedrich was keenly interested in 17th Century Dutch landscape painting. In 1798 he settled in Dresden permanently. Friedrich often drew works, mainly topographical and naturalistic, with sepia ink, watercolor and India ink. It is not clear when he finally took up oil painting, but it was probably after the age of thirty. His preferred subject was Landscapes, inspired by frequent trips to the Harz Mountains, Bohemia, the Riesen Mountains and the Baltic coast. His paintings depict morning mists, woods, harbors, hills, and light effects based on a close observation of nature. His paintings are mostly based on the landscapes of northern Germany. That’s why framed Caspar David Friedrich art are so popular in Germany. The paintings provided topographical information and were made almost exclusively in pencil, and the subtle atmospheric effects were rendered from memory.