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Title: Caspar David Friedrich (Abbey in Eichwald (monk funeral in oak)) Art Poster Print
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Size: 17 x 11 inches (28 x 43 cms)
SKU: 555534
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Details: This poster is of The Abbey in Oakwood, by Caspar David Friedrich. A procession of monks, some of whom bear a coffin, head toward the gate of a ruined Gothic church in the center of the painting. Only two candles light their way. A newly dug grave yawns out of the snow in the foreground, near which several crosses can be faintly discerned. This lower third of the picture lies in darkness¿only the highest part of the ruins and the tips of the leafless oaks are lit by the setting sun. The waxing crescent moon appears in the sky.
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 ¿ May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes which typically feature dimension contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's work characteristically sets the human element in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that directs the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical
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