Caspar David Friedrich Biography and Artwork

Caspar David Friedrich was a renowned German Romantic landscape painter who was born on September 5, 1774. He grew up in a religious household and experienced the loss of his mother and sisters at an early age. Friedrich is considered one of the most important figures of the German Romantic movement, thanks to his mid-period allegorical landscapes and seascapes that depict how humans are powerless against natural forces.

Friedrich produced over 500 works during his lifetime, with many being attributed to him after his death. His paintings often feature dramatic rocky landscapes, rugged coastlines, and Gothic ruins enshrouded in misty atmospheres that convey both awe-inspiring natural beauty and melancholic introspection. Amongst Friedrich’s most popular works were “Monk by the Sea” and “Two Men Contemplating the Moon.”

Aside from being a recognized painter, Friedrich was known for supporting German liberal and nationalist causes during his time. His life’s work was characterized by solemnity that reflected personal losses as well as contemplation on human existence. Caspar David Friedrich is one of Germany’s great artists whose work has left an enduring impact on modern painting until today.

All Caspar David Friedrich Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name Year Medium
Plowed field c.1830
Plowed Field
Port by Moonlight 1811
Reefs by the Seashore
Rest at the Hay Harvest 1834 oil,canvas
Riesengebirge Landscape with Rising Fog 1819 - 1820 oil,canvas
Rock arch in the Uttewalder Grund c.1801
Rocky Ravine in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains 1822 - 1823 oil,canvas
Rocky Reef on the Seashore c.1825 oil,canvas
Rogen landscape in Putbus 1824
Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, Reading 1802
Ancient Oak Tree with a Storks Nest
A Northern Spring Landscape 1825
August Bridge in Dresden
A Walk at Dusk (with Tumulus) 1837 oil,canvas
Basel
Boat on the Shore. Moonrise c.1837 - c.1839
Ruined Monastery of Eldena near Greifswald oil
Ruin of Eldena in the Giant Mountains c.1830 - c.1834 oil,canvas
Sea beach with fisherman (The fisherman) 1807 oil
Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight c.1825 - c.1830 oil,canvas
Sea with ships c.1826
Self Portrait 1810
Self-portrait as a young man 1800 chalk
Ship in the Arctic Ocean 1798 oil,canvas
Solitary Tree 1822
Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains
Boats in the Harbour at Evening 1828 oil,canvas
Bohemian Landscape 1808
Bohemian Landscape with Mount Milleschauer 1808
Boy sleeping on a grave c.1801 - c.1803
By the townwall 1800
Cabin in the Snow c.1827 oil,canvas
Canyon in the resin 1811
Carl Vogelvon Vogelstein 1823
Chalk Cliffs at Rügen 1826 watercolor
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen c.1818 - c.1819; Germany oil,canvas
Study of heads, figures, and foliage 1802
Summer
Evening Landscape with Two Men c.1830 - c.1835 oil,canvas
The Abbey in the Oakwood 1809 - 1810; Germany oil,canvas
The Chasseur in the Forest 1814 oil,canvas
The dreamer 1820 - 1840 oil
The Gazebo 1818 oil,canvas
The Grosse Gehege near Dresden 1832 oil,canvas
The Monk by the Sea 1808 - 1810; Germany oil,canvas
The Noon oil,canvas
Clipping floe 1823 - 1824
Clipping iceberg 1823 - 1824
Coast Scene c.1830
Cross and Cathedral in the Mountains c.1812 oil,canvas
Cross in the forrest c.1820
Cross in the Mountains 1806
Day c.1821
Dolmen in snow 1807 oil,canvas
Doorway in Meissen
Early snow 1828
The Riesengebirge 1830 - 1835
The Stages of Life 1835; Germany oil,canvas
The Summer 1807; Germany oil,canvas
The Watzmann 1824 - 1825; Germany oil
Two Men by the Sea 1817 oil,canvas
Two Men Contemplating the Moon 1794 - 1798
View from the Artists Studio, Window on Left
View from the Small Warmbrunn Sturmhaube 1811
View of a Harbour 1814 oil,canvas
View of Arkona with Moon Rising 1803 oil,canvas
Easter Morning 1835 oil,canvas
Eastern Coast of Ruegen Island with Shepherd
Elbschiff in early morning fog 1820
Eldena 1824
Ernst Theodor Johann Bruckner c.1801
Evening 1824 oil,cardboard
Evening on the Baltic Sea 1831 oil,canvas
Fir Trees in the Snow 1828 oil,canvas
Fishing boat between two rocks on the beach of the Baltic Sea 1830
View of Schmiedebergerkamm
Swans among the reeds at the first Morgenro 1832
Trees in the snow 1828
Ships at the port of Greifswald 1818 - 1820 oil,canvas
Das Eismeer 1823 - 1824
Morning 1821
Afternoon 1821
Caroline Sponholz
Luise Sponholz
Ships sailing off in the morning c.1816 - c.1817
Flat country shank at Bay of Greifswald 1834
Fog 1807
Fog in the Elbe Valley 1821
Forrest in the end of the autumn 1835
Funeral scene at the beach 1799
Giant Mountains Landscape with Rising Fog 1820
Grave by the Sea 1807
Graveyard under Snow 1826 oil,canvas
Greifswald in moonlight 1817
Greifswald market 1818
Churchyard Gate 1826 - 1827 oil,canvas
City at Moonrise 1817
Coffin and Grave
Cross and Church in the Mountains 1812 oil,canvas
Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) 1808 oil,canvas
Twilight at Seaside 1819 oil,canvas
West facade of the ruins of Eldena
Winter landscape c.1811; Germany oil,canvas
Wolves in the Forest in Front of a Cave 1798
Woman at a Window 1822 oil,canvas
Hills and Ploughed Fields near Dresden 1825
Hunter in the Forest
Inside the Forest under the moonlight c.1823 - c.1830
Landscape in the Riesengebirge 1798
Landscape with a male figure
Landscape with Mountain Lake Morning
Landscape with Oak Trees and a Hunter 1811
Landscape with rainbow c.1810 oil
Landscape with the Rosenberg in Bohemian Switzerland 1835
Landscape with the Rosenberg in the Bohemian Mountains
Woman Before the Rising Sun 1818 - 1820 oil,canvas
Woman in a Cloak
Woman on the beach of Ruegen 1818
Woman on the stairs 1825
Woman with a candlestick 1825
Largeness c.1832
Couple Gazing at the Moon c.1824 oil,canvas
Megalithic grave c.1837
Monastery ruins in the snow 1819
Moonrise by the Sea 1822 oil,canvas
Moonrise on the Sea
Morning in Riesengebirge 1810 - 1811 oil,canvas
Morning in the Mountains c.1823
Morning in the Sudeten Mountains c.1810 - c.1811
Morning mist in the mountains 1808
Mountainous River Landscape 1830
Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds 1835
Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds
Neubrandenburg c.1816 - c.1817; Germany oil
Neubrandenburg in the Morning Mist c.1816 oil,canvas
New Moon Above the Riesengebirge Mountains
The North Sea in the Moonlight 1823 - 1824 oil,canvas
Two Men Contemplating the Moon c.1825 - c.1830 oil,canvas
Sailing ship
Winter 1807 - 1808
Rocky Ravine 1823
Fog c.1820 - c.1830
The Cemetery Entrance 1825
Drifting Clouds 1820 oil,canvas
The Tree of Crows 1822 oil,canvas
Oak Tree in the Snow c.1827 - c.1828; Germany oil,canvas
On Board a Sailing Ship 1818 - 1820 oil,canvas
Owl on a grave c.1836 - c.1837; Germany pencil,sepia
Peaks with clouds c.1835
Pines at the waterfall 1828
The Sea of Ice 1823 - 1824 Oil on Canvas
Riesengebirge c.1830 - c.1835 Oil on Canvas
Tetschen Altar or Cross in the Mountains 1807-08 Oil on Canvas
Chalk Cliffs on Rugen 1818-19 Oil on Canvas
Cloister Cemetery in the Snow 1817-19 Oil on Canvas
Large Enclosure c. 1832 Oil on Canvas
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog 1818 Oil on Canvas
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