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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Nineteenth-century German Realism, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann, later Adolph von Menzel, was born in Breslau, Germany, on December 8, 1815. He died in Berlin on February 9, 1905.

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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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«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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I'm still blown away at how can take non-prompt prompts and just run with them.

"Fantastical, incredible, beautiful composition, trending on ArtStation, in the style of Caspar David Friedrich."

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new webtoon !

serena becomes the sole heir of the serenity family & is forced to marry the man she hates the most in order to save her family. she has a lover, friedrich, whos the only thing that comforts her. this is the story of 3 people who are entangled in hot hatred & love.

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