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Article: Heaven on earth: Cordula Grewe on Caspar David Friedrich.(paintings exhibition)
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- Artforum International
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- May 1, 2006
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"THE WORLD MUST BE ROMANTIcized," the young German poet Novalis exclaimed in 1798. It was a call to give "the ordinary an elevated meaning, the commonplace a mysterious aspect, the familiar the dignity of the unfamiliar, the finite an appearance of infinity." For Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), this ambition--to bring forth the invisible from the visible--defined the highest mission of art. His unswerving pursuit of this goal established him as the quintessential German Romantic painter. A retrospective opening this month at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, investigates not only Friedrich's pivotal contribution to the nineteenth-century movement but also his ...
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