1825 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Southern Coast of Rügen with a Distant View over Having Bay toward Greifswald -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This view of Rügen, the coastal landscape that had inspired Friedrich's initial breakthrough as an artist, animates the island's flat terrain with a refined play of colors and brilliant luminosity. On the horizon, just left of center, is the skyline of Greifswald, Friedrich's birthplace. Rendered with minuscule strokes of the pencil, the tiny city profile communicates the enormous distance that unfolds, across a mere three inches of the sheet, from foreground to background. The oblique angle of the furrows in the sand amplifies the dramatic spatial recession.
1825 (ca.), Caspar David Friedrich, Southern Coast of Rügen with a Distant View over Having Bay toward Greifswald -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This view of Rügen, the coastal landscape that had inspired Friedrich's initial breakthrough as an artist, animates the island's flat terrain with a refined play of colors and brilliant luminosity. On the horizon, just left of center, is the skyline of Greifswald, Friedrich's birthplace. Rendered with minuscule strokes of the pencil, the tiny city profile communicates the enormous distance that unfolds, across a mere three inches of the sheet, from foreground to background. The oblique angle of the furrows in the sand amplifies the dramatic spatial recession.