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Friedrich, Caspar David

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Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)

German Romantic landscape painter. He was active mainly in Dresden. He imbued his subjects - mountain scenes and moonlit seas - with poetic melancholy and was later admired by Symbolist painters.

The Cross in the Mountains (1808; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) and Moonrise over the Sea (1822; Nationalgalerie, Berlin) are among his best-known works.


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