1835 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Mountains in the Rising Fog -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: Here the background is literally to the fore. Past the ridge of hills and the valley, our gaze comes to rest on a range of mountains. It was the Rosenberg in Bohemian Switzerland that provided the motif for this painting - one of Friedrich's last. 'Formed of the most beautiful lines, as if angels had played in the sand'. Heinrich von Kleist raved about the alpine region in 1801. In his paintings Friedrich combined the objectively seen with the subjectively felt. Nature was the motif fund from which he drew to compose his romantic landscapes.
1835 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Mountains in the Rising Fog -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: Here the background is literally to the fore. Past the ridge of hills and the valley, our gaze comes to rest on a range of mountains. It was the Rosenberg in Bohemian Switzerland that provided the motif for this painting - one of Friedrich's last. 'Formed of the most beautiful lines, as if angels had played in the sand'. Heinrich von Kleist raved about the alpine region in 1801. In his paintings Friedrich combined the objectively seen with the subjectively felt. Nature was the motif fund from which he drew to compose his romantic landscapes.