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Subject Matter/ Iconography

decline of the old church

nature is eternal

death

Monk by the Sea 1808-1810

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Context

What is an Abbey?

Significance

Friedrich's contribution to the history of Art was the portrayal of landscapes not only as an object of beauty, but as well as a romantic and spiritual experience.

Formal Analysis

King Fredrick William III

Bibliography

Compare and Contrast

Friedrich, Abbey in an Oak Forest, 1809-10

Thomas Cole, Oxbow, 1836

http://todayinsocialsciences.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-abbey-in-oakwood-by-david-caspar.html

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/caspar-david-friedrich.htm

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring12/whittington-on-caspar-david-friedrichs-medieval-burials

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3215/caspar-david-friedrich-german-1774-1840/

Physical Properties

What season is depicted?

Size: 110.4x171cm

Material: Oil on Canvas

Type of Art: Painting

Condition: Good

Context: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Abbey in an Oak Forest, 1809-10

Period: Romanticism

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich

1774 Greifswald, Germany

1790 University of Greifswald

Abbey in an Oak Forest

1794 Academy of Copenhagen

Printmaking, watercolors, and

oil paintings

Allegorical landscapes

by Caspar David Friedrich

"The artist's feelings is his law"

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