the fantastic Caspar David Friedrich 
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syllabus 

unit one
Bosch
Bruegel
Arcimboldo 
Friedrich
Fuseli
Grandville
Goya
Grünewald
.....
Hoffmann
Poe
Freud
unit two
unit three

 

Winter Landscape with Church 


Mist


Monastery Burial-Ground Under Snow
 

The landscapes of Friedrich combine realism and visionary transport in ways unique to him. The greatest German master of landscape painting of the 19th century speaks with conviction in his work of the power of nature and the awe it inspires. In his memorable canvasses, elemental nature dwarfs the human actor (Winter Landscape with Church), provokes an eerie sense of altered perception (Mist, Trees in Moonlight) or leads the solitary viewer into an encounter with the sublime (Traveler Looking Over Sea of Fog). In common with his spiritual heir, Odilon Redon, Friedrich believed that the artist must close 
his eyes to see...

 

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