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Reflection

All the trees and shrubs are dried up and dead

Painted during the "dead of the year" to capture a mystical feel.

Story of the Painting

The monks are carrying out a funeral, some say that it is Friedrich's. The open grave, the coffin, dead trees and the mystic air about is to represent the nightmare of death. Thus showing the loneliness one can have.

Style: German Romanticism

Created: 1809-1810

Materials: Oil on canvas

Location: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Meaning: The falling of the great cathedral church leaving only impressive monuments of the faith that once sustained it.

Nature claiming the land and death.

Chalk Cliffs of Rugen

Other Pieces

Caspar David Friedrich

The Monk by the Sea

  • Born: September 5, 1774, Greifswald Germany
  • Died: May 7, 1840, Dresden Germany
  • Was son of a strict Lutheran father who boiled candles and soap
  • The sixth child out of ten
  • Early encounter with death. His mother died when he was seven, one of his brothers drowned and two of his sisters perished
  • 1790 studied with Johann Gottfried Quistorp

The Sea of Ice

Abbey In The Oak Forest

Mikayla On

Mr.Klein

Humanities 2

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