Caspar David Friedrich

A hardcover book titled Caspar David Friedrich Kunst für eine neue Zeit, set against a white background. The book is shown at an angle, displaying its front cover and spine. The cover features a gradient background that shifts from pale grey to blue to a yellowish-green, with the title in large black and white sans-serif lettering.

The back cover of a book from the Hamburger Kunsthalle, shot at an angle against a white background. The cover features a large block of German text and a barcode on the top half. The bottom half shows a romantic landscape painting of dark, rolling hills in front of a sunlit yellow field.

A close-up, angled shot of the corner of a book on a white background. The cover has a blue and yellow-green gradient with white German text. The publisher, Hatje Cantz, is visible on the spine. The page edges are a solid, textured blue-green color.

An open art book or exhibition catalog, viewed from an angle. The left page features a painting by Caspar David Friedrich of a man in a dark coat and cap, seen from behind, standing on a white chalk cliff and looking out over the sea. The right page has German text under the title Natur und Subjekt bei Caspar David Friedrich.

An open book with a two-page spread. The left page shows a full reproduction of a Romantic painting of a woman in a dark dress, seen from behind, looking out over a hilly landscape under an orange sky. The right page contains an essay in German.

An open art book displaying a two-page spread on a white surface. The right page features Caspar David Friedrich's painting, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, showing a man from behind standing on a rocky precipice overlooking a misty mountain landscape. The left page contains German text and a small sketch.

An open book viewed from above. The left page shows a photograph of a woman sitting on a museum bench, her back to the camera, surrounded by a large pile of empty plastic bottles. She looks at a framed painting of a dramatic, rocky landscape. The right page contains a block of German text under the large headline, Kunst für eine neue Zeit.

An angled, overhead view of an open book on a white surface. The left page shows Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Sea of Ice, where a wooden ship is wrecked and crushed by massive, sharp sheets of ice. The right page contains German text under the large headline Die Wiederentdeckung der Romantik.

A two-page spread from an art book featuring Caspar David Friedrich's painting, Ruin Oybin. The painting on the right shows the interior of a crumbling Gothic church ruin at sunset. The warm, golden light of the sun streams through three tall, arched windows, illuminating the overgrown stone walls. The left page contains German text and two preparatory sketches of the ruin.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left is a block of German text titled Abend 1824. On the right is a horizontal oil painting of a sunset. The sky fills most of the canvas, with a warm golden-yellow glow near the dark, silhouetted horizon that fades upwards into a pale, hazy blue. Wispy, thin clouds drift across the upper part of the sky.

A two-page spread from a book or magazine. The left page shows a close-up of an oil painting of a window inside a room, with an artist's easel in the foreground. The window looks out onto a blue sky. The right page has the German headline Der Caspar David Friedrich, der uns fehlt, above columns of text by Florian Illies.

A two-page book spread with two photographs of large, pale blue icebergs floating in a dark, choppy sea under an overcast grey sky. In the photo on the right, a small human figure stands atop the highest peak of an iceberg, with several birds flying overhead.

A page spread from an art book about artist Susan Schuppli. On the left is a column of German text. On the right are two photographs stacked vertically. The top photo shows a glacier at the water's edge with a colorful, iridescent light effect on its surface. The bottom photo is a black and white image of a lone iceberg in the sea with the text THERMAL INVERSION overlaid on the water.

Caspar David Friedrich

Kunst für eine neue Zeit (Schmuckausgabe mit Farbschnitt)

€ 54.00

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By (artist): Caspar David Friedrich

Edited by: Markus Bertsch, Johannes Grave

December 2023, 512 Pages, 350 Photos

Flush-Cut Hardcover

241mm x 290mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5604-4

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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A New Sensitivity for Nature

At the heart of Caspar David Friedrich's work is a new view on nature. The landscape paintings and drawings of German Romanticism's foremost artist break with traditional patterns of representation. Instead, they combine an unusually precise study of nature with an uncompromising will for pictorial composition. In the first third of the nineteenth century, Friedrich's paintings paved new ways of both experiencing and at the same time reflecting on the ambivalent relationship between humankind and nature.
Accompanying the most comprehensive Friedrich retrospective in many years, this catalogue re-examines the artist's groundbreaking work in light of the urgent challenges in a time of climate crisis. His unbroken topicality is also evident in the reception of his works in contemporary art, which is presented in the second part of the book. Various reinterpretations and appropriations of Friedrich's images and themes allow the Romantic view of nature to enter into a fascinating dialogue with contemporary perspectives on nature and the discourse on ecological issues.

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774-1840) stands for Romanticism like no other painter. Born in Greifswald, then part of the Kingdom of Sweden, he studied drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, before settling in Dresden in 1798. During his lifetime, Friedrich's landscape compositions were as fascinating as they were irritating. They are firmly anchored in the German pictorial memory and in many ways prove to be relevant to the questions and challenges of today.

EXHIBITION
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, December 15, 2023 - April 1, 2024