Caspar David Friedrich

romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich Paintings 1774 - 1840 German Painter, Romanticism

Morning in the Riesengebirge, 1810-1811

Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 66 7/8 inches (108 x 170 cm)

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Mountain and Forest Paintings

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OIL PAINTING: Morning in the Riesengebirge, 1810-1811
With his friend Kersting Friedrich had made a tour of the mountainous area near Dresden known as 'Saxon Switzerland', in the summer of 1810. Morning in the Riesengebirge, painted shortly afterwards, is another exposition of his theme of the cross on a peak. It may be seen as a sort of continuation of the Tetschen Altar. The planes of earth and sky, representing the bodily and the infinite, are bridged by the crucifix, lit by the morning sun.