Caspar David Friedrich:
Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c. 1820), framed
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Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c. 1820), framed
Caspar David Friedrich:
Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c. 1820), framed

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limited, 950 copies | original Dietz replica | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size approx. 42 x 49 cm (h/w)

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Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c. 1820), framed
Caspar David Friedrich: Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c....

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Picture "Swans in the Reeds" (c. 1820), framed

He was the romantic of his time. In his work, we sense the touch of infinity in which the painter stakes out spatial and human boundaries. His expressive style often oscillates between meticulous depictions of nature and moods that shift into the allegorical or symbolic.
Original: c. 1820, oil on canvas, 34 x 44 cm, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Original Dietz replica. Oil on canvas in 85 colours. Limited edition of 950 copies. Each canvas replica is stretched on a stretcher frame like the original, so you can re-stretch the canvas as room temperature and humidity fluctuate. Framed with a dark real wood strip. Size incl. frame approx. 42 x 49 cm (h/w).

Portrait of the artist Caspar David Friedrich

About Caspar David Friedrich

1774-1840

Caspar David Friedrich was the most important German painter of the Romantic period. Even his person embodied the typical Romantic: he was rather introverted, close to nature and religious, he saw nature as a mirror of human feelings. In his meticulously painted canvases, Friedrich achieved incomparable metaphysical transparency.

"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself." With this recommendation to his fellow painters, Caspar David Friedrich explained the driving force and meaning of his paintings.

Landscape depiction holds a leading position in his oeuvre. Friedrich went on long hikes through the mountains and along the coast with friends. He captured human beings in their smallness in relation to the immense power of nature. The lonely figures look longingly into vast landscapes with distant horizons. They often turn their backs to the viewer so that he can put himself in their place. Using symbolic nature metaphors such as the moon as the universe and tree stumps as an indication of transience, he created contemplative romantic feelings and religious sentiments. Friedrich wanted his nature moods to provide insight into the human soul.

At the age of 24, after an academic education in Copenhagen, the young artist was drawn to Dresden. In the city along the Elbe, Friedrich and other painters, as well as poets such as Tieck and Schlegel, formed the centre of early Romanticism. The characteristic feature of Romanticism is the reciprocal effect of poetry and painting. Friedrich's landscapes are mirrors of feelings and seek to express visually what poetry achieves with words. "The depths of our spirit are unknown to us - the mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds - the past and future - is in ourselves or nowhere." This is how the poet Novalis expressed himself on behalf of the early Romantics.

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