Goethe und Caspar David Friedrich

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The cover of the book Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe und die Romantik in Weimar. The cover art features a painting of a dark, jagged mountain range under a cloudy night sky, with a bright full moon shining above the central peak. The logos for Klassik Stiftung Weimar and Hatje Cantz are at the bottom.

The back cover of a book, shown at an angle against a white background. The cover features a romantic-style painting of a dark, jagged mountain range under a cloudy blue sky. A block of text in German is printed over the lower right portion of the image, with a barcode and ISBN at the very bottom.

An overhead shot of an open book. The left page contains German text by author Stefan Matuschek. The right page features a full-page, sepia-toned romantic illustration of a pale, distressed woman in a translucent gown sitting beside a muscular man with a laurel wreath who is slumping over the edge of a couch.

An overhead shot of an open art book. The left page shows multiple pencil sketches of birds in flight on an off-white background. The right page features descriptive text in German, identifying the work as Caspar David Friedrich's Karlsruher Skizzenbuch.

An overhead view of an open book on a white surface. The left page contains German text under the title Ein verschollener Friedrich by Sebastian Schlegel. The right page features a full-page reproduction of a Romantic painting depicting a person standing on a hill overlooking a vast landscape with a large rainbow arcing across the sky.

A two-page spread from a book. On the left is a detailed pencil sketch of wildflowers and grasses on off-white paper, with the handwritten date den 1t Januar 1807 at the bottom. The right page features the title Caspar David Friedrich und Goethes Weimar by Annette Ludwig, followed by introductory text in German.

A two-page spread from an art book comparing two works by Caspar David Friedrich. The left page shows a handwritten letter with a small ink sketch of a cross on a shoreline. The right page features the finished oil painting, The Cross on the Baltic Sea, which depicts a large wooden cross on a rocky coast against a muted sky with a pale sun over the water.

A two-page spread from an art book in German. On the left is a large pastel portrait of Sylvie von Ziegesar, a woman with light brown hair in an updo, wearing a dark gown and a pearl necklace against a gray background. The right page features descriptive text alongside a smaller oil painting of Johanna Schopenhauer with her daughter Adele in an artist's studio, seated at an easel with a palette and brushes.

A page from a book displaying three intricate, allegorical line drawings in black and white. On the left are two smaller vertical illustrations, KAT. 50 and 51, filled with classical figures, cherubs, and fantastical flora. The larger artwork on the right, KAT. 52, shows a grand, symmetrical plant structure rising towards a radiant sun, with a central woman and child surrounded by numerous cherubs at its apex, all within an ornate border.

A book spread on German color theory, with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's watercolor color wheel on the left page and four detailed diagrams of Philipp Otto Runge's Farbkugel, or color sphere, on the right page.

A page from an art book displaying the Romantic painting Phantasie über die Musik, after Carl Gustav Carus. The scene is viewed from a dark loggia with Gothic arches. On a balcony, a figure shrouded in a dark blue cloak sits beside a large harp. In the distance, a Gothic cathedral with two spires stands against a twilight sky with a full moon. The adjacent page features German text and a small preparatory sketch.

A page from an art book showing Carl Gustav Carus's 1837 painting, Abenddämmerung, in an arched gold frame, with German text on the left. The Romantic landscape painting depicts two men in dark cloaks and a black poodle from behind on a hill, overlooking a medieval city with church spires against a dramatic sunset sky of orange and blue.

A two-page spread from an art book in German, displaying three illustrations for the poem Der Erlkönig. On the left is text and a pencil drawing by Ferdinand Olivier of a rider in a forest. The right page features a large, dark, and dramatic painting by Moritz Steinla, showing a father clutching his child on a powerful black horse as the crowned Erl-King appears beside them. Below this is a faint sketch by Moritz von Schwind.

A book open to a page spread showing Moritz von Schwind's 1850 watercolor, Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer. The painting on the right page depicts a large, crumbling ruin of a Gothic-style building under a blue sky with clouds. In the landscape, a figure on horseback rides away on a path to the left, while two other figures rest in the foreground. The left page contains descriptive text in German.

A diptych of two 19th-century realist paintings of interior scenes. On the left, a woman in a green room sits at a small table by a sunlit window, engaged in needlework. On the right, a man in a tan-walled study sits at a writing desk, also illuminated by a window, writing with a quill. Both figures are shown from behind in moments of quiet concentration.

An open book spread displays a 19th-century painting on the left and descriptive German text with a sketch on the right. The painting shows a young man with curly hair in a dark coat, seated on a grassy hill, gazing over a vast, hazy mountain landscape. His top hat and walking stick lie beside him.

An open, age-toned sketchbook from the early 19th century. The right page features a detailed pencil drawing of a large, gnarled tree with bare, intricate branches. The left page contains a simpler sketch of a tree trunk, with a handwritten date of den 27 April 1804 at the bottom.

Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe und die Romantik in Weimar

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Edited by: Annette Ludwig, Christoph Orth, Katharina Krügel, Johannes Grave, Johannes Rößler für die Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Graphic Design: Kerstin Riedel

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

Texts by: Jutta Eckle, Uwe Golle, Johannes Grave, David Grube-Palzer, Anna Krone, Katharina Krügel, Anne Levin, Annette Ludwig, Stefan Matuschek, Christoph Orth, Johannes Rößler, Sebastian Schlegel, Timo Trümper, Bettina Werche, Carsten Wintermann

German

December 2024, 224 Pages, 100 Photos

Paperback with Flaps

212mm x 270mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5789-8

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10629 Berlin
Germany
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Today, Caspar David Friedrich is considered the most important artist of German Romanticism. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in turn, was one of the best connoisseurs of Friedrich's works at the time. This volume is dedicated to the hitherto little-noticed mutual attraction between the two personalities and demonstrates the central role of Weimar in art around 1800. For the first time, it presents the outstanding holdings of Friedrich's works from the collection of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The latest restoration studies also raise awareness of the cultural value of this pictorial treasure.