Caspar David Friedrich

romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich Paintings 1774 - 1840 German Painter, Romanticism

Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun), 1818-1820

Oil on canvas, , 22 x 30 cm

Museum Folkwang, Essen

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Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun), 1818-1820 by Caspar David Friedrich is entirely handmade without use of artificial methods. It is painted on linen canvas with oil paints of the highest French quality.

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OIL PAINTING: Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun), 1818-1820
In 1818, at the age of 44, Friedrich married Caroline Brommer, a cheerful 25 years old Saxon woman. That Caroline was a positive influence on the artist, which is evidenced by the fact that, from this point on, women appear with greater frequency in Friedrich paintings . A new, friendly element seems to enter his paintings . A case in point is the painting to which some authors give the title Woman before the Rising Sun, and which others call Woman before the Setting Sun. The woman seen in rear view appears as a large silhouette against the intense reddish-yellow of the sky. It is difficult to interpret the fervent gesture of her outstretched arms and the stylised rays radiating from the mountains on the hazy horizon, heralding the presence of the invisible sun.
Caroline was probably the model for the female figure in old-German dress in the Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun). Since she is stepping towards the light like an early Christian in prayer, some have sought to interpret the painting in terms of a communion with nature. On the other hand, the atmosphere evoked in Friedrich's painting might be interpreted as that of dusk, the path which terminates so abruptly as an announcement of death, and the boulders scattered alongside the path as symbols of faith. In the final analysis, few of Friedrich's paintings are as emphatic and almost exaggeratedly symbolic in their effect - factors which render the painting not unproblematic for the viewer.