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Caspar David Friedrich
German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 September 1774
- Died
- 7 May 1840
- Place of birth
- Greifswald
- Place of death
- Dresden
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Friedrich
- Mother
- Sophia Dorothea Bechly
- Spouse
- Caroline Friedrich
- Child
- Adolf Friedrich
- Movement
- German Romanticism
- Field of work
- painting, art of drawing, landscape painting, Romanticism
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, architectural drafter, watercolorist, printmaker, draftsperson, landscape painter, etcher
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia, Sweden
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- catalogue raisonné
- Caspar David Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen. Das gesamte Werk, Caspar David Friedrich. Gemälde, Druckgraphik und bildmäßige Zeichnungen, Q130242671
- depicted by
- Q104695550, Q130243066
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Paintings of the nineteenth century: contribution to the history of art, New International Encyclopedia, Q126174668, Dresdner Hefte, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
- employer
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- ethnic group
- Germans
- has works in the collection
- Belvedere, Städel Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Schloss Weimar, Art Collections Chemnitz, Museum Ostwall, Charlottenburg Palace
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- name in native language
- Caspar David Friedrich
- notable work
- The Sea of Ice, Two men contemplating the Moon, Tree of crows, The Monk by the Sea, The Abbey in the Oakwood, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen
- place of burial
- Trinitatis Cemetery
- topic's main category
- Category:Caspar David Friedrich
- work location
- Dresden, Greifswald, Copenhagen, Neubrandenburg, Loschwitz, Vienna
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