Reisenberg, The Mountains of the Giants

ID: #16911 | Classicism | Landscapes

Date: 1839
Location: Hermitage, Sant Peterburg, Russia

Friedrich painted picture Reisenberg, The Mountains of the Giants in 1839. Prevailing color of this fine art print is orange and its shape is landscape. This art piece is located in Hermitage, Sant Peterburg, Russia. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter. Friedrich studied art in Copenhagen. He was disillusioned with the materialist Europe, and like William Turner and John Constable, he tried to point to the divine beauty of nature and discourage superficiality, which we see his breath-taking allegorical paintings of nature: Giant or Lone Tree. His works served as an inspiration to Expressionists and Surrealists . The decline in his popularity after World War II was in part due to the Nazis, who perverted the meaning of his works to favour their nationalistic ideals. Some of his works were destroyed in the fire of the Munich Glass Palace or the bombing of Dresden. Friedrich died in poverty in Dresden on May 7th, 1840, where he was also buried.