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Giant Mountains Landscape with Rising Fog, 1820 #caspardavidfriedrich #friedrich
Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was #bornonthisday 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs
These illustrations come from 'Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland', botanique III, 1807-1829
"[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)
A million dollars? Lawrence will tell you what he’d do, man.
#Doodles #Lawrence #DiedrichBader #OfficeSpace @bader_diedrich @MikeJudge #adobefresco
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. #GothicArt
“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Claude Monet
"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
Fishing boat between two rocks on the beach of the Baltic Sea, 1830 #romanticism #friedrich
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
#random #Bear #quoteoftheday
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Caspar David Friedrich, Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, 1835 https://t.co/bgsbW5Fw8B #museumarchive #stlartmuseum
"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
“We have Art so that we shall not die of reality” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I MUST have #Art! Helps keep me focused on positive potentials rather than the news.
#tuesdaymotivations #modernart #Painting #Abstract #contemporaryart #ArtistOnTwitter #arte
Landscape with Grave, Coffin and Owl, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830s. 🦉 #OwlishMonday
2/2 Two men contemplate the crescent moon, 1830. By Caspar David Friedrich, whose day has been today.
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.
Born #OnThisDay in 1722: #FrederickChristian (1722-63), Elector of Saxony
Portrait by #PietroRotari (1707-62), 1755
#FriedrichChristian #Wettin