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Caspar David Friedrich

1774 - 1840

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Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar David Friedrich has received more than 2,146,214 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Caspar David Friedrich is the 43rd most popular painter (up from 47th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Germany (down from 74th 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 43 out of 1,421. Before him are Giotto, Joan Miró, Tintoretto, René Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Masaccio. After him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, J. M. W. Turner, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro, Nicolas Poussin, and Paul Klee.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 75 out of 6,142. Before him are Heinrich Hertz (1857), Helmut Kohl (1930), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), and Karl Jaspers (1883). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Heinz Guderian (1888), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Arminius (-17), and Charles the Bald (823).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich ranks 3. Before him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577) and Albrecht Dürer (1471). After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Hans Memling (1435), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Franz Marc (1880), Otto Dix (1891), and Gerhard Richter (1932).

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