| | | | Caspar David Friedrich: Inventing Romanticism Author: Museum Folkwang Essen
Format: Audio Download
Audio Length: 1 hour and 28 min.
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Publisher's Summary: It is more than 30 years since Caspar David Friedrich's work was last on show in a major retrospective in Germany. Now, the Folkwang Museum in Essen and the Hamburger Kunsthalle present probably the most famous painter of the German Romantic period in a magnificent exhibition of international distinction. Some 80 paintings and well over 100 works on paper, including unique masterpieces from major museums and private collections on loan for the first time, open up a new insight into the outstanding artistic achievement of Caspar David Friedrich (1774?1840). The artist is revealed as a superbly creative originator of eloquent and deeply meaningful pictures.The audio tour by Antenna Audio presents some 30 of the most famous paintings in more detail, among them such masterpieces as "Sea of Ice", "Woman at the Window", "Tetschen Altar", "Wanderer above a Sea of Mist", and of course "Chalk Cliffs on Rugen". The tour demonstrates how the artist arrived at his compositions by combining studies from Nature with abstract constructs to create fictional landscapes with an immediate emotional impact on the observer. The significance of the figures in rear view for Friedrich's work is explained, as is the importance of companion pieces and paired paintings. The contemporary historical background to Friedrich's oeuvre is conveyed by information about his life and career. Interviews with the exhibition's curator, Dr. Hubertus Ga?ner, give a very personal view of these masterpieces of the Romantic period. Quotations from Caspar David Friedrich himself, from friends and contemporaries add vivid accents, as do the skills of the narrator, Dulcie Smart. |
