Zachary Fine on the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings, and on Germany’s celebrations for the artist’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday.
The painting in question, “The Monk by the Sea” , along with its pendant, “The Abbey in the Oakwood” , are the centerpieces of a bewitching new Friedrich retrospective at the Alte Nationalgalerie, in Berlin. The occasion is a slightly random jubilee: the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Friedrich’s birth. Across Germany this year, there are exhibitions in Hamburg and Dresden, and more than a hundred and sixty events in Friedrich’s home town of Greifswald.
In his tart reply, Friedrich mocked Ramdohr for lacking spirit: “You who are nothing but body!” The clear highlight—and surprisingly so—is “The Watzmann.” It’s not as symbolically dense as “Chalk Cliffs,” but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more bracing landscape painting in person. It makes your mind feel as if it’s chewing on a mint.
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