Second Fool: "Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?"

First Fool: "...a gravemaker: the houses that he makes last till doomsday."

--Hamlet, Shakespeare.
🎨Caspar David Friedrich (1810)

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This watercolour from 1911 pre dates Harald Sohlberg’s 'Winter Night in the Mountains,' the most famous painted landscape in, and of, Norway. The work owes a great deal to the German and Norwegian Romantic tradition especially Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl.

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“Dolmen in Autumn” (c.1820) by Caspar David Friedrich

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Now included in Cat nr 291 in Giltaij 2022 (Het Grote Rembrandtboek. Alle 684 schilderijen) as by a follower of Rembrandt. It was engraved by Johann Friedrich Bause in 1765 with its presumed female pendant, that bears a signature and date 1657 (nr 427, also as by a follower).

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Talking about dysfunctional father-son relationships, it was November 6th, 1730 that Hans Hermann von Katte, the best friend of the future Frederick the Great was executed upon orders of Frederick’s father, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia.🧵 (1/17)

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"...it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows" (Margaret Atwood)

Darklings!

Welcome to a ominously feathered

RTs between 10am - 10pm CET

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "Tree of Crows" (c 1822)

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Meglio essere folle per proprio
conto, che saggio con le
opinioni altrui.

Friedrich Nietzsche






Marc Chagall 🖌️

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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" Friedrich Nietzsche.

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The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-10) by Caspar David Friedrich (German artist, lived 1774-1840). Leaning tombstones, lifeless trees, ruined structures in the mist.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb & dance; one cannot fly into flying ~Friedrich Nietzsche

FLY: https://t.co/e7IfhzEt1b

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The second element of Friedrich's Romanticism was his love of landscape painting.

Whereas the neoclassical and Enlightenment thinkers saw nature as something to be understood and conquered, Friedrich imbued his landscapes with a certain reverence, fear, and mystery:

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“There is innocence in admiration. It’s occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.” ~ Friedrich Neitzche

There is only one way.

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Great theme - The cruciform motif was everywhere in Friedrich's work

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Landscape alluding to religious motif - where did it all start? 🤔 With Caspar David Friedrich's misty enigma's perhaps?

Trevor Grimshaw used Telegraph poles as if Crucifixes on Calvary Hill. Theodore Major usually combined dramatic lighting with a redemptive narrative. 🤔

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🎶Thankful for this beautiful Sunday marked by Johannes Sebastian Bach und Georg Friedrich Händel.
Those two masters really captured the essence of life. So moving that talented young artists still champion their works nowadays

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«Non sono arrabbiato perché mi hai mentito, sono arrabbiato perché d'ora in poi non posso più crederti.»
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Gärtner
German artist

San Cristo de la Luz, former mosque in Toledo (1848)

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