Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840)
Caspar David Friedrich was born the sixth of ten children in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, Germany. He grew up under the strict Lutheran creed of his father Adolf Gottlieb, a prosperous candle-maker and soap boiler. The transience of human existence, the redemptive powers of nature, man at the mercy of the elements - all are stock themes of Romanticism. For Friedrich, though, they had personal meaning too. At 13, Friedrich fell through the surface of a frozen lake and nearly perished. His...
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