Caspar David Friedrich

The original was lost in WW2. Masuyama did a great job reproducing it, I assume based on a photo. I bet Caspar David Friedrich would say so. (This is a cropped part of the image.)

Landscape in the Riessengebirge - Caspar David Friedrich - www.caspardavidfriedrich.org

Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian, 1788-1857) "View of Dresden by Moonlight" 1839

This HD wallpaper is about Caspar David Friedrich, Gothic, painting, landscape, Original wallpaper dimensions is 4000x2563px, file size is 1.3MB

In this stained glass window panel, a young woman peers out the window.

by Casper David Friedrich

Friedrich was born in Pomerania, then part of Sweden. He studied at the University of Greifswald and the Copenhagen Academy. He settled in Dresden, and associated with its circle of Romantic scholars and poets. He often visited his homeland and toured Germany. Friedrich established a reputation for landscape drawings and sepias before painting in oils.

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period 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, …