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On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774 Greifswald-1840 Dresden), the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents the anniversary exhibition CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: Art for a New Era from 15 December 2023 to 1 April 2024. It offers the most comprehensive exhibition of works by the important Romantic painter for many years. At the centre of the exhibition is a thematically oriented retrospective of over 60 paintings – including numerous iconic key works – and around 100 drawings. In addition, selected works by Friedrich’s artist friends will be presented, including those by Carl Blechen, Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, August Heinrich and Georg Friedrich Kersting.
The central theme is the novel relationship between man and nature in Friedrich’s landscape depictions. In the first third of the 19th century, he thus set essential impulses for making the genre of landscape “art for a new time”. The enduring fascination of his works and their special connectivity to contemporary themes is shown in a second separate section of the exhibition, which is dedicated to Friedrich’s reception in …
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Image above: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) Das Eismeer, 1823/24, Oil on canvas, 96,7 x 126,9 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, (c) Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk, Photo: Elke Walford
