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In the Footsteps of C.D.Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) was the greatest landscape painter of the
German Romantic. When in 1974 the Kunsthalle in Hamburg made a memorial
exhibition, people stood in a line from the main train station to the museum
waiting to see his art. Also did my father and I. When I later studied art history at
the university in Stuttgart, my professor was Werner Sumowski, an expert of
Friedrich’s art, who successfully excited his students about his favorite master. So
it was a “must” for me to participate, when the Association of Art Teachers offered
in 1994 and 1995 two bus travels to the places, where Friedrich once had painted.
The first led us to the island Rügen with it’s megalithic graves and the impressing
chalk cliffs, the second to Bohemia and the Sudeten Mountains with the spring of
the Elbe river and to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Sometimes we were able to
reconstruct by his sketches, where exactly Friedrich must have sat nearly two
hundred years ago!
German Romantic. When in 1974 the Kunsthalle in Hamburg made a memorial
exhibition, people stood in a line from the main train station to the museum
waiting to see his art. Also did my father and I. When I later studied art history at
the university in Stuttgart, my professor was Werner Sumowski, an expert of
Friedrich’s art, who successfully excited his students about his favorite master. So
it was a “must” for me to participate, when the Association of Art Teachers offered
in 1994 and 1995 two bus travels to the places, where Friedrich once had painted.
The first led us to the island Rügen with it’s megalithic graves and the impressing
chalk cliffs, the second to Bohemia and the Sudeten Mountains with the spring of
the Elbe river and to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Sometimes we were able to
reconstruct by his sketches, where exactly Friedrich must have sat nearly two
hundred years ago!
Ruegen
| Flowering Elder in Stargard, 1995 |
| Corner in Stargard, 1995 |
| City Gate of Neubrandenburg, 1995 |
| Wiek Houses in Neubrandenburg, 1995 |
| Abandoned Villa in Neubrandenburg, 1995 |
| Ruin of Eldena Monastery I, 1995 |
| Ruin of Eldena Monastery II, 1995 |
| Ruin of Eldena Monastery III, 1995 |
| Abandoned House in Greifswald, 1995 |
| The Herta Pond I, Ruegen, 1995 |
| The Herta Pond II, Ruegen, 1995 |
| The Herta Pond III, Ruegen, 1995 |
| Great Megalithic Grave, Ruegen, 1995 |
| Megalithic Grave, Ruegen, 1995 |
| Megalithic Graves, Ruegen, 1995 |
The Eldena monastery was a ruin
even in Friedrich's days showing up
in many of his paintings. The pond
of the pagan goddess Herta and her
cult (Herta = Nerthus) is named in
Tacitus' ancient book "Germania".
even in Friedrich's days showing up
in many of his paintings. The pond
of the pagan goddess Herta and her
cult (Herta = Nerthus) is named in
Tacitus' ancient book "Germania".
| Old Graveyard of Vilmnitz, Ruegen, 1995 |