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Article: ART: PRIVATE VIEW Caspar David Friedrich to 18 Aug Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2002
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Caspar David Friedrich's paintings helped give artistic form to
the Romanticism that swept across Europe at the end of the 18th
century. As a movement, it exulted the past, sought to discover the
sublime and, above all, treasured the introspective moment.
Born in Greifswald, near the Baltic Sea, the mature Friedrich
dedicated himself to his art in his Dresden studio. "Solitude is
essential to my conversation with nature," he observed. His creative
reverie was broken by, among others, Emperor Nicholas the First of
Russia.
Nicholas bought three of Friedrich's paintings, which feature in a
new ...