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CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH - Art for a New Age | 15 Dec 2023 - 01 April 2024 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue | English original edition with blue coloured edges
A new view of nature is at the centre of Caspar David Friedrich's work. The landscape paintings and drawings by the most important artist of German Romanticism break with traditional patterns of representation. Instead, they combine an unusually precise study of nature with a thoroughgoing desire for pictorial composition. In this way, Friedrich's paintings pave a new way of thinking about the ambivalent interrelationship between man and nature. They make it possible to experience that man is part of nature and at the same time faces it with vision and reflection. The book accompanying the major Friedrich retrospective contributes to a rediscovery of his work in the face of current challenges in times of climate crisis. Friedrich's paintings can inspire us to question our view of man's relationship to nature, and his unbroken topicality is reflected not least in the reception of his works in contemporary art, which is presented in the second part of the book. A variety of new interpretations and appropriations of Friedrich's images and themes allow the romantic view of nature to enter into an exciting dialogue with ecological issues and contemporary perspectives on nature.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774-1840) epitomises Romanticism like no other painter. Born in Greifswald, he studied at the art academy in Copenhagen and settled in Dresden in 1798. Friedrich's landscape compositions already fascinated and irritated us during his lifetime. They are firmly anchored in our visual memory and prove in many ways to be relevant to the questions and challenges of our time.
Hardcover edition | Publisher: Markus Bertsch, Johannes Grave | Hatje Cantz Verlag | Number of pages 512 | Dimensions (L/W) 29 x 23.5 cm | Language English
A new view of nature is at the centre of Caspar David Friedrich's work. The landscape paintings and drawings by the most important artist of German Romanticism break with traditional patterns of representation. Instead, they combine an unusually precise study of nature with a thoroughgoing desire for pictorial composition. In this way, Friedrich's paintings pave a new way of thinking about the ambivalent interrelationship between man and nature. They make it possible to experience that man is part of nature and at the same time faces it with vision and reflection. The book accompanying the major Friedrich retrospective contributes to a rediscovery of his work in the face of current challenges in times of climate crisis. Friedrich's paintings can inspire us to question our view of man's relationship to nature, and his unbroken topicality is reflected not least in the reception of his works in contemporary art, which is presented in the second part of the book. A variety of new interpretations and appropriations of Friedrich's images and themes allow the romantic view of nature to enter into an exciting dialogue with ecological issues and contemporary perspectives on nature.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774-1840) epitomises Romanticism like no other painter. Born in Greifswald, he studied at the art academy in Copenhagen and settled in Dresden in 1798. Friedrich's landscape compositions already fascinated and irritated us during his lifetime. They are firmly anchored in our visual memory and prove in many ways to be relevant to the questions and challenges of our time.
Hardcover edition | Publisher: Markus Bertsch, Johannes Grave | Hatje Cantz Verlag | Number of pages 512 | Dimensions (L/W) 29 x 23.5 cm | Language English