Peintre caspar david friedrich biography summary

Caspar David Friedrich is the leading Romantic landscape painter. He was born in Greifswald on 5 September 1774, the sixth of ten children, all of whom came into the world in the house of the Greifswald soap-boiler Gottlieb Adolf Friedrich and his wife Sophie Dorothea née Bechly.
Caspar David’s childhood was overshadowed by the early deaths of his mother and two of his siblings.
From 1790 Caspar David studied with Johann Gottfried Quistorp, who taught drawing at the University of Greifswald and who did much to promote his student’s career.

Caspar david friedrich prints

Caspar David continued his studies at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, before settling in Dresden in 1798. He remained in Dresden until his death on 7 May 1840.
Even after Caspar David Friedrich had settled in Dresden, he continued to be drawn back to Greifswald and the surrounding area, which he visited on frequent occasions.

His close and abiding affinity with the scenery of north Germany