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Caspar David Friedrich

1774 - 1840

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Caspar David Friedrich (German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar David Friedrich has received more than 2,299,026 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Caspar David Friedrich is the 54th most popular painter (down from 43rd in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Germany (down from 75th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Painter.

Caspar David Friedrich is most famous for his paintings of German landscapes. He is also known for his paintings of mythological scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 54 out of 2,023. Before him are J. M. W. Turner, Paul Klee, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Andrea Mantegna, Georges Braque, and Fra Angelico. After him are Camille Pissarro, Giorgione, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-François Millet, Egon Schiele, and Domenico Ghirlandaio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 1. After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, Auguste de Marmont, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, William Henry, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1840, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 2. Before him is Niccolò Paganini. After him are Frederick William III of Prussia, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Lucien Bonaparte, Emperor Kōkaku, Siméon Denis Poisson, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jacques MacDonald, and Louis de Bonald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 107 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Honecker (1912), William the Silent (1533), Max Born (1882), Willy Brandt (1913), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), and Frederick III, German Emperor (1831). After him are Henry the Fowler (876), Alfred Wegener (1880), Albert Speer (1905), Clara Zetkin (1857), Bruce Willis (1955), and Theodor W. Adorno (1903).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 3. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577). After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Hans Memling (1435), Franz Marc (1880), Hans von Aachen (1552), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), and Emil Nolde (1867).

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