About the book: From night skies and sunrises to the oft-quoted Wanderer above the Sea of Fog: Caspar David Friedrich succeeded in capturing emotional and metaphysical experiences of nature in art. This introduction presents his most important and best-known works and introduces a painter whose enchanting images, striving for the sublime, made him a leading representative of Romantic aesthetics.
Biography: Norbert Wolf studied art history, linguistics, and medieval history in Regensburg and Munich and received his doctorate in art history in 1983. He was a visiting professor in Marburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg-Erlangen, and Innsbruck. Wolf has written numerous books on art history, including the titles Diego Velázquez, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Caspar David Friedrich, Expressionism, Romanesque, Landscape Painting, and Symbolism published by TASCHEN.
Pages: 96
AUTHOR: Norbert Wolf
First published: 16/09/2015
Language of the book: French
Edition: F
ISBN: 978-3-8365-6070-2
Topics: Art
Dimensions: 21.0 cm x 26.0 cm, Weight 0.63 kg
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