Casper David Friedrich
is a much neglected Romantic landscape painter who in stark contrast to his contemporaries, with their classical tastes, was much more interested in the landscape than portraits or still lives. His art doesn't fail to impress you with the impact he manages to express in his landscapes. He would study different aspects of nature in detail and would then paint a landscape with this level of detail.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog The Abbey in the Oakwood
He is known for his expansive landscapes against which he would often set human figures and buildings. His paintings were often gothic or sublime in nature. A contemporary said that he had discovered the 'tragedy of landscape'. In recent years his impact and legacy has been reevaluated and there later this year there is a show of his work on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York called Casper David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature.
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