Eastern Coast of Rugen Island with Shepherd
by Caspar David Friedrich
Title
Eastern Coast of Rugen Island with Shepherd
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich
Medium
Drawing - Sepia Colored Ink, Sepia Colored Wash, White Gouache And Graphite
Description
Eastern Coast of Rugen Island with Shepherd by Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1805-1806.
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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January 23rd, 2017
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