Caspar David Friedrich

[Ulf]

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement.

Portrait
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jp g

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (my favorite painting)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg

The Sea of Ice
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Caspar_David_Friedrich_006.jpg/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_006.jpg

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Caspar_David_Friedrich_028.jpg/782px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_028.jpg

The Abbey in the Oakwood
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/The_Abbey_in_the_Oakwood.jpg

The Giant Mountains
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Caspar_David_Friedrich_016.jpg/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_016.jpg

Old Heroes' Graves
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Caspar_David_Friedrich_021.jpg/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_021.jpg

[Brännvin]

My favorite;
Die Lebensstufen (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Lebensstufen)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Caspar_David_Friedrich_013.jpg/766px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_013.jpg

This is the shore near the harbour of Greifswald, in Germany’s old Pomerania region on the Baltic Sea. Greifswald is where Friedrich was born on September 5, 1774, when it belonged to Sweden. That’s why the children in the painting are holding a Swedish flag. ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Lebesstufen_detail.jpg/551px-Lebesstufen_detail.jpg

[Zyklop]

Der Watzmann
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3516/derwatzmann.jpg

The lone tree
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1345/dorflandschaft.jpg

[Svipdag]

It is generally considered bad practise to place the principal subject of a painting directly in the centre. The only other well-known painting I can remember in which this is done is one of Gustave Caillebotte's Paris street scenes which is divided neatly into halves by a lamp-post in the exact centre of the canvas.

[LouisFerdinand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go87azXN5Ms