Vaughan .:. Caspar David Friedrich

Vaughan, William, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Hans Joachim Neidhardt,
Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840. Romantic Landscape Painting in Dresden. London: Tate Gallery, 1972. 112 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Broschiert. 4to. 278 x 216 mm. 506 g

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* Published for the exhibition of 6 September - 16 October 1972, Tate Gallery London. - Schwache Gebrauchsspuren, sehr wenige Randanstreichungen mit Bleistift.
Bestell-Nr.160888 | ISBN: 0-900874-36-8

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Vaughan | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Malerei | Caspar David Friedrich

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Caspar David Friedrich 1774 — 1840
The works of Caspar David Friedrich, hitherto almost totally unknown in this country, will be a revelation for the British Art public, and indeed they have already aroused intense interest amongst artists and critics. Rarely have such evocative phenomena of nature as the momentary harmonics of diffused light before dawn and after sunset, the crystalline freshness of newly fallen snow and the ethercal mists of low-lying coastlands been re-created with such poignancy and depth of feeling. Friedrich, the contemporary of Turner and Constable, searched the inmost resonanees of our experiences before nature in a way quite different from anything in the tradition of English landscape. In the broad expanses of his Baltic homeland, the intimate countryside around Dresden and the mysterious mountains and forests of central Europe he discovered images that are at once visionary and compellingly real
The essays and catalogue in this book have been published to accompany the largest exhibition ever devoted to Friedrich's work. William Vaughan, formerly Assistant Keeper at the Tate and now a Lecturer at University College, London, has contributed a long introduction to Friedrich's life and art. Dr Helmut Börsch-Supan, Custos in the Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlosser und Gärten, Berlin, has provided entries for the pictures based on his forthcoming Oeuvre Catalogue of Friedrich's works. As well as an article by Dr Joachim Neidhardt of the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden there is a documentary section which contains both statements by the artist and accounts of his character and work by his contemporaries. The only full-scale publication on Friedrich in English, with ten colour plates and over a hundred black and white illustrations, this book provides an invaluable record of the greatest genius of German Romantic painting.

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