Caspar David Friedrich

romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich Paintings 1774 - 1840 German Painter, Romanticism

Oak in the Snow, 1820

Oil on canvas, 17 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (44 x 34.5 cm)

Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

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OIL PAINTING: Oak in the Snow, 1820
Friedrich's masterpieces were almost forgotten by the general public in the second half of 19th century and only at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century Friedrich was rediscovered by Symbolist painters for his visionary and allegorical landscapes. For that same reason Max Ernst and other surrealists saw Friedrich as a precursor of their movement