Caspar David Friedrich

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Caspar David Friedrich about art:
"The one true source of art is our heart, the language of a pure childhke nature. A picture that does not spring from this well can only be affectation Ever)' genuine work of art is conceived in a dedicated hour and born in a happy one, often from the inner striving of his heart, without the artist being conscious of it. . . The task of the artist is not the exact representation of air, water, rocks arid trees; but his soul and his feelings should be mirrored in his work. To recognize the spirit of nature, penetrate it with one's whole heart and mind, take it in and reproduce it, that is what a work of art is all about."
His contemporaries about Caspar David Friedrich:
"One of the most original, and oneof the strangest people and artists that 1 have come across. A person who was like nobody else, will not easily find such a man again. Many have tried to imitate him, but no one ever knew how to reproduce that quiet life of Nature, that was... Tovább

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Caspar David Friedrich about art:
"The one true source of art is our heart, the language of a pure childhke nature. A picture that does not spring from this well can only be affectation Ever)' genuine work of art is conceived in a dedicated hour and born in a happy one, often from the inner striving of his heart, without the artist being conscious of it. . . The task of the artist is not the exact representation of air, water, rocks arid trees; but his soul and his feelings should be mirrored in his work. To recognize the spirit of nature, penetrate it with one's whole heart and mind, take it in and reproduce it, that is what a work of art is all about."
His contemporaries about Caspar David Friedrich:
"One of the most original, and oneof the strangest people and artists that 1 have come across. A person who was like nobody else, will not easily find such a man again. Many have tried to imitate him, but no one ever knew how to reproduce that quiet life of Nature, that was peculiar to Friedrich's art, and gives his often stiff-seeming pictures a charm of their own." (Johari Christian Clausen Dahl)
"Neither is there anything sentimental in his pictures; on the contrary, they please us because of thei»- truth, because each one arouses in the soul the memor}' of something we know; if we find more in them than what we see with our eyes, it is because the painter does not look at Nature as an artist who is merely seeking a motif for his brush, but as a human being with feelings and imagination, who finds everywhere in Nature a symbol of human life. Friedrich doesn't concern himself overmuch with artistic rules; he paints his pictures not for connoisseurs, but for nature lovers; the critics may be dissatisfied with him, but the best critic, unprejudiced feeling, is always on his side." (W. A. Shukowski)
Front cover: Chalk cliffs on Rügen. 90.5 x71 cm. Oil on canvas. Around 1820. Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation Vissza