Farmhouses by a Hillside
by Caspar David Friedrich
Title
Farmhouses by a Hillside
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich
Medium
Drawing - Pen And Black Ink, Over Traces Of Pencil, Watercolour In Three Shades Of Grey
Description
Farmhouses by a Hillside by Caspar David Friedrich, 1799.
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. 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 or megalithic 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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