Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard von Kügelgen c. 1810–1820
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a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.
Born
5 September 1774 Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania (now Germany)
Died
7 May 1840 (aged 65) Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation (now Germany)
Nationality
German
Known for
Painting
adultbasic
Germany
era
1800+
Movement
Romanticism
Notable work
The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810) Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818) Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) Moonrise by the Sea (1822)