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Caspar David Friedrich

1774 - 1840

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Caspar David Friedrich (German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension". Friedrich was born in the town of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea in what was at the time Swedish Pomerania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caspar David Friedrich is the 47th most popular painter (up from 54th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Germany (up from 107th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Painter.

Caspar David Friedrich is most famous for his paintings of German landscapes. He is also known for his paintings of mythological scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 47 out of 2,023. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Mucha, Paolo Veronese, Nicolas Poussin, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After him are Anthony van Dyck, Andrea del Verrocchio, Fra Angelico, Paul Klee, René Magritte, and Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Among people born in 1774, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 1. After him are Daniel D. Tompkins, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Auguste de Marmont, Francis Beaufort, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1840, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 2. Before him is Niccolò Paganini. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Frederick William III of Prussia, Siméon Denis Poisson, Emperor Kōkaku, Lucien Bonaparte, Jacques MacDonald, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Dingane kaSenzangakhona.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 94 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich von Manstein (1887), Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Bruce Willis (1955), Clara Schumann (1819), Charles the Bald (823), and Nicholas of Cusa (1401). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Rudolf Höss (1901).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 3. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577). After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Hans Memling (1435), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Franz Marc (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), and Otto Dix (1891).

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