The period of romanticism in art gave us a large number of magnificent works, including paintings. One of the representatives of this period among German artists was Caspar David Friedrich - a singer of divine being, infinity, death and hope.
Biography
Caspar David Friedrich was born in the German city of Greifswald in 1974. His family was engaged in soap business, and no one thought about art. However, Caspar drew well, so at the age of sixteen he was sent to study with the master of painting, so that he taught him the primary methods of drawing. The teenager showed good results, and then his father sent him to Copenhagen - to receive education at the Academy of Fine Arts. For four years, Frederick learned the art of painting, and then returned home.
Artists are free people, and in search of inspiration they can roam the world, which Caspar did. He began to travel around the cities of Germany - he was looking for where he would work best. Creativity itself requires different states: today an artist needs solitude so as not to be distracted from the process, and tomorrow he wants to communicate and get new impressions, so that later he can transfer them to the canvas in a pictorial form.
Friedrich considered Dresden to be the best place for himself and stayed there. In this city he met other painters, made friends with many. However, an uneven emotional state made it difficult to communicate with him, because he was sometimes gloomy and melancholy, and it was impossible to stir him up with anything.
However, Frederick was not a purely urban resident. Often he traveled to Saxon Switzerland, the Baltic or Harz. He especially liked to travel to the island of Rügen. All these places fully corresponded to his melancholy mood and helped to find inspiration.
He painted mainly landscapes, so the nature and the whole atmosphere of these places gave him a lot of food for thought and opportunities for an open air.
Confession
Until 1807, Friedrich performed his work in the technique of drawing, then began to paint in oil. First, brothers-artists drew attention to him, then he received the recognition of the general public, and later the king of Prussia himself.
Now the master could create without thinking about his daily bread, and he drew days without a break. The same contradictory canvases came out from under his brush as he himself was: the beauty of nature in his paintings is slightly gloomy, sometimes almost apocalyptic. He painted a lot of cemeteries, graves, burials. And if these were sea landscapes - the colors were still muffled, and a feeling of dominance of nature over man was created.
However, it is better to look at the paintings of Friedrich in order to better understand and feel him. Critics wrote that he was visible in his paintings.
