‘Catedral de Praga' (1912) de Friedrich Frank (1871-1945)

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Giant Mountains Landscape with Rising Fog, 1820

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Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs

These illustrations come from 'Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland', botanique III, 1807-1829

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"[If the painter] sees nothing within him[self], then he should refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead."
C.D Friedrich (1774-1840)

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The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-10) by Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840). Leaning tombstones, sombre processions, lifeless trees, ruined structures in the mist, feelings over thinking. It must be Romanticism.

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“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Claude Monet

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"Don't be scared of such a fate: for in our bones the magic lives for the rest of our days; and then we'll return the favour."

Couple Gazing at the Moon (1824) 🎨 Caspar David Friedrich

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Fishing boat between two rocks on the beach of the Baltic Sea, 1830

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche



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Caspar David Friedrich, Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, 1835 https://t.co/bgsbW5Fw8B

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"Brave New Selfie" Based on: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich (1818). Illustration by Kim Dong-kyu https://t.co/hG69emqG7Y

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“We have Art so that we shall not die of reality” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Landscape with Grave, Coffin and Owl, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830s. 🦉

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2/2 Two men contemplate the crescent moon, 1830. By Caspar David Friedrich, whose day has been today.

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Caspar David Friedrich was born on September 5, 1774

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Thread: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is considered the greatest German landscape artist of his time. A key Romantic painter he explored the metaphysical role of human & nature. He truly captured the sublime. He was born on this day.

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Born in 1722: (1722-63), Elector of Saxony

Portrait by (1707-62), 1755

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