Caspar David Friedrich in quotes on Romantic landscape-painting - free resource, German art history

Caspar David Friedrich in his artist quotes on landscape painting and Romanticism in painting art - free art-resource for students, pupils and teachers in German art history

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Friedrich’s artist quotes inform us directly about his painting art in German Romanticism and the impact of the wide landscape and Nature on him, in solitude. He painted many Romantic landscapes in his studio in Germany, with wide empty shores or high mountains and only a few people in it - rather small.

Most of Friedrich’s landscape paintings show humble human beings, located in a wide anf huge Nature. His primary interest was contemplation of Nature and the Sublime.
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Some selected artist-quotes of German artist Caspar David Friedrich - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I just stepped out of the dark, still forest and found myself on a rising hill. In front of me I saw a valley, surrounded by fertile hills, in which a town stood and the newly covered slate roof of the tower glowed in the evening light… .Filled with soaring joy I stood there a long time and looked at the beautiful area…’ - quote of Friedrich, from his Notebook, 1803

• ’Through the gloomy clouds break / Blue sky, sunshine, / On the heights and in the valley / Sing the lark and the nightingale / God, I thank you that I live / Not forever in this world / Strengthen me that my soul rise / Upward toward your firmament.’ - some poetry-lines of Friedrich, 1802-05

• ’Sometimes I try to think and nothing comes out of it; but it happens that I doze off and suddenly feel as though someone is rousing me. I am startled, open my eyes, and what my mind was looking for stands before me like an apparition - at once I seize my pencil to draw…’ - Friedrich’s quote, recorded by Vasily Zhukovsky, c. 1821; cited in ‘Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen’, p. 239
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  selection of free art-resources on German artist Caspar David Friedrich:

  • extended biographical notes of Caspar David Friedrich, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Friedrich, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
  • images of his painting art, on Wikiart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]