Caspar David Friedrich
Seine Gedankengange
by Helmut Borsch-Supan
Hardback (Published)
(November 2023)
ISBN: 9783871572647
7.83 x 10.28 inches
Price: $80.00
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English summary: Few artists are interpreted as contradictorily as Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), probably the most important German painter of the 19th century. Many consider him the Romantic landscape painter par excellence. For Helmut Borsch-Supan, however, who has studied Friedrich again and again for decades, his paintings are deeply rooted in religious sentiment. In this book, he traces Friedrich’s world of thought with regard to what the artist himself called the “idiosyncrasy” that underpinned his personality and creative individuality. It also illuminates the thought processes that connect his works with each other – the complete work thus proves to be a whole. Information about the nature and thinking of Friedrich is provided by his friends and adversaries: Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, Gerhard von Kugelgen, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski and Maximilian Speck von Sternburg. German description: Wenige Kunstler werden so gegensatzlich interpretiert wie Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), der wohl bedeutendste deutsche Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Vielen gilt er als der romantische Landschaftsmaler schlechthin. Fur Helmut Borsch-Supan jedoch, der sich seit Jahrzehnten immer wieder mit Friedrich beschaftigt, wurzeln dessen Bilder tief in religioser Empfindung. In diesem Buch zeichnet er Friedrichs Gedankenwelt in Hinblick auf die vom Kunstler selbst so bezeichnete Eigentumlichkeit nach, welche dessen Personlichkeit und schopferische Individualitat grundierte. Erhellt werden zudem die Gedankengange, die seine Werke untereinander verbinden – das Gesamtwerk erweist sich so als Ganzes. Auskunft uber Wesen und Denken Friedrichs geben dessen Freunde und Gegner: Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, Gerhard von Kugelgen, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski und Maximilian Speck von Sternburg.
English summary: Few artists are interpreted as contradictorily as Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), probably the most important German painter of the 19th century. Many consider him the Romantic landscape painter par excellence. For Helmut Borsch-Supan, however, who has studied Friedrich again and again for decades, his paintings are deeply rooted in religious sentiment. In this book, he traces Friedrich’s world of thought with regard to what the artist himself called the “idiosyncrasy” that underpinned his personality and creative individuality. It also illuminates the thought processes that connect his works with each other – the complete work thus proves to be a whole. Information about the nature and thinking of Friedrich is provided by his friends and adversaries: Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, Gerhard von Kugelgen, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski and Maximilian Speck von Sternburg. German description: Wenige Kunstler werden so gegensatzlich interpretiert wie Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), der wohl bedeutendste deutsche Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Vielen gilt er als der romantische Landschaftsmaler schlechthin. Fur Helmut Borsch-Supan jedoch, der sich seit Jahrzehnten immer wieder mit Friedrich beschaftigt, wurzeln dessen Bilder tief in religioser Empfindung. In diesem Buch zeichnet er Friedrichs Gedankenwelt in Hinblick auf die vom Kunstler selbst so bezeichnete Eigentumlichkeit nach, welche dessen Personlichkeit und schopferische Individualitat grundierte. Erhellt werden zudem die Gedankengange, die seine Werke untereinander verbinden – das Gesamtwerk erweist sich so als Ganzes. Auskunft uber Wesen und Denken Friedrichs geben dessen Freunde und Gegner: Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, Gerhard von Kugelgen, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski und Maximilian Speck von Sternburg.
- By (author) Helmut Borsch-Supan
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