Monastery Graveyard in the Snow
1817-1819
Friedrich's life was melancholy, isolated and little lauded, yet after his death his influence became monolithic. Besides the amazing technique that he displayed in his works, there is a tremendous thematic power that overwhelms most observers when they stare into them. There is a pervasive loneliness and miniaturization of the human spirit in his works, which he did not mean simply as an expression of his own depression, but as a representation of his love for the spiritual over the material. There are no Romanticists I can think of whose works more clearly establish their consciences and souls than those of Friedrich.
Eldena Ruin
1825
Two Men Contemplating the Moon
1819-1820
Winter Landscape
1811
Self-Portrait
1810
