Heaven on earth: Cordula Grewe on Caspar David Friedrich.(paintings exhibition)

Artforum International | May 1, 2006| | Copyright

"THE WORLD MUST BE ROMANTIcized," the young German poet Novalis exclaimed in 1798. It was a call to give "the ordinary an elevated meaning, the commonplace a mysterious aspect, the familiar the dignity of the unfamiliar, the finite an appearance of infinity." For Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), this ambition--to bring forth the invisible from the visible--defined the highest mission of art. His unswerving pursuit of this goal established him as the quintessential German Romantic painter. A retrospective opening this month at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, ...

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