Winter Landscape with Church |
The landscapes of Friedrich combine realism and
visionary transport in ways unique to him. The greatest German master of
landscape painting of the 19th century speaks with conviction in his work
of the power of nature and the awe it inspires. In his memorable canvasses,
elemental nature dwarfs the human actor (Winter Landscape with Church),
provokes an eerie sense of altered perception (Mist, Trees in Moonlight)
or leads the solitary viewer into an encounter with the sublime (Traveler
Looking Over Sea of Fog). In common with his spiritual heir, Odilon Redon,
Friedrich believed that the artist must close
his eyes to see... |
