Greifswald in moonlight

The painting depicts a romantic landscape at dusk or early morning with the low-lying sun projecting warm colours into the sky, creating silhouettes in the city on the horizon. Sailboats can be seen anchored off the harbour and the majestic silhouettes of buildings in the background add a sense of peace and tranquillity to the composition. The art of light and shadow creates an atmospheric effect.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is landscape. 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.