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Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age

by Markus Bertsch

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Friedrich in dialogue with the present

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Friedrich in dialogue with the present

This catalogue brings together more than sixty paintings and around one hundred drawings by Caspar David Friedrich, alongside selected works by several of his contemporaries. Its focus extends beyond the historical survey: the book considers Friedrich’s art through questions raised by the climate crisis and postcolonial reflection. A second section turns to contemporary responses, with about twenty artists using media including video, photography, and installation to engage with Romanticism, its view of nature, and Friedrich’s work. The structure places the painter’s landscapes and drawings within both their artistic context and ongoing conversations about how people relate to the natural world.

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  • Readers seeking a substantial illustrated volume on Caspar David Friedrich’s art and contemporaries.
  • Readers interested in Romanticism and changing perspectives on nature.
  • Readers curious about contemporary artists responding to historical art.

Themes

Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic artHumanity and natureClimate crisis and postcolonial reflectionContemporary responses to historical art

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Book overview

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional patterns of representation and paved new ways of both experiencing and reflecting on the ambivalent relationship between humankind and nature.

Accompanying the most comprehensive Friedrich retrospective in many years, this catalogue reexamines the artist's groundbreaking work in light of the current climate crisis and postcolonial reflection. It centers on more than sixty paintings and about one hundred drawings. Selected works by Friedrich's contemporaries, notably August Heinrich, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, and Johann Alexander Thiele are also featured.

The second part of Caspar David Friedrich focuses on the contemporary reception of his work. In contributions ranging from video and photography to installations, some twenty artists working across a variety of genres and media explore the Romantic era, its attitude to nature, and the art of Friedrich. The participants include Alex Grein, Swaantje G

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