Hamburg's stunning new space to showcase outsiders Oct 17, 2008
"I love outsiders," Falckenberg explained, "and I want to show that there are alternatives to Caspar David Friedrich.". Falckenberg also favors ensembles over single works, seeking to represent the full span of achievements by such favorites as Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy and Christian Jankowski. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Family Affair Oct 13, 2008
In addition to an abundant selection of Egyptian and Babylonian antiquities, the show includes a sublimely becalmed "The Virgin With the Sleeping Child" by the 15th century Italian master Andrea Mantegna; a pair of Andrea della Robbia terra cottas; paintings by Courbet, Renoir and Caspar David Friedrich; Japanese woodblock prints; and European folk art in various media. The exhibition documents the catholic tastes, connoisseurship and largesse of James Simon, a self-taught German collector and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Poses, power, and perfection Oct 5, 2008
"Caspar David Friedrich and the German Romantic Landscape": Caspar David Friedrich was the most important German painter of the 19th century. This exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam is the first to bring to the West all the Friedrich holdings in St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. (Boston Globe)
Takes on the landscape of 'burbs, epic Babylon Apr 20, 2008
Among the starry roster of painters are J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Corot, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul C zanne. Parkes Place, 011-61-2-6240-6501. (Boston Globe)
Thin on the ground Mar 21, 2008
By far the most fascinating part of the show is the second section, where Australian paintings by Eugene von Guerard are placed alongside works by the great German romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich and others by Carl Gustav Carus and Johan Christian Dahl. Not only does von Guerard survive the comparison, he is the outstanding figure in the room. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Urban Realist Craig McPherson Mar 6, 2008
The artist sees Caspar David Friedrich, while Frick director of curatorial affairs Sarah Hall sees the burned fields of Anselm Kiefer. They are all present. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Screen tests Nov 24, 2007
The video refers to a painting by Caspar David Friedrich from 1818. Even if you don't get the references, the video is very short, less than three minutes, and functions more like a moving painting. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich. Friedrich is greatly admired for this painting done in 1809 in which a tiny figure of a man is set against a bleak landscape described as a vast endless expanse of sky. (Suite101.com)
Germany's mythic titans Sep 14, 2007
That "Gothic" or medievalising element in German culture - seen in the canvases of Caspar David Friedrich as well as heard in Wagner's music - simply disappeared. Awareness of complexity and avoidance of simple moralism are the signs of a great artist; 21st-century historians will need the same gifts to unravel the causes of Germany's 20th-century tragedy. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bross, Danziger lectures to focus on work of Bosch, view of pop culture through lens of Greek tragedy Apr 27, 2007
A specialist in German renaissance art, Koerner has broad scholarly interests, having written on Paul Klee, Caspar David Friedrich, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as self-portraiture in German renaissance art. His lectures on Bosch, Ward said, are part of a larger project in which he is examining conceptions of evil and goodness in 15th-and 16th-century art. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
The ART Cologne fair shifts dates and find new competition Apr 25, 2007
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg and Beirut At ART Cologne, one of a series of photographs by the Japanese artist Hiroyuki Masuyama who revisited sites Caspar David Friedrich painted two centuries ago. Text Size. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Wucius Wong Draws a Line Through Five Decades of Chinese Ink Paintings Jan 4, 2007
Meditation No. 10 (1987) shows a Caspar David Friedrich- like dawn light coming from the vapor of Niagara Falls on a hanging scroll, demonstrating Wong's passion for the European Romantic artists. At the end of the 1980s, Wong returns to his roots in China with a journey through the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
