View of the Elbe River from the artist's studio in Dresden.
Caspar David Friedrich was a German painter and draughtsman of the Romantic period. He went to Dresden in 1798 and stayed there all his life. He was friends with Goethe and Novalis.
Friedrich and his friend Philipp Otto Runge unwittingly created an innovation in the visual arts. Friedrich was fascinated by the mystical and interested in the mystery of life. He gave the landscape a soul and made nature the sounding board of human feelings.
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