Wandern mit Caspar David Friedrich

A reading sample can be found at. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is the most significant landscape painter of the German early Romantic period. Time and again, he set out on great hikes - whether in his Saxon chosen homeland, in North Bohemia, to the Giant Mountains, or to the Baltic Sea. In the process, he created over 1,000 nature studies, which ultimately found their way into his freely composed and realistically appearing landscape paintings. His close relationship with the Saxon Switzerland and the now-called historical painter's path can be evidenced by many devoted and precise sketches. But Tharandt with the Plauenschen Grund, Meissen, Nossen, Hainichen, Kriebstein, and many other places did not go unnoticed by the artist. The guide invites you to wander in the footsteps of Caspar David Friedrich through explanatory texts, maps, drawings, and paintings, as well as the juxtaposed photographs, and to discover his motifs. Those landscapes can fascinate us today just as they did Friedrich in the first half of the 19th century. Sometimes, our contemporary visual experience, which is often focused on the spectacular, resists his perspective. But Friedrich teaches us to sharpen this gaze, to observe nature more intensely, and to awaken our senses. He teaches us a new way of seeing nature.