Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦 on Nostr: "Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835. Friedrich (1774-1840) ...
"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.
Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.
The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...
From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps
Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.
The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...
From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps