Title:
Caspar David Friedrich : art for a new age
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
509 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
ISBN:
9780500028339
Abstract:
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional patterns of representation and paved new ways of both experiencing and reflecting on the ambivalent relationship between humankind and nature. Accompanying the most comprehensive Friedrich retrospective in many years, this catalogue reexamines the artist's groundbreaking work in light of the current climate crisis and postcolonial reflection. It centers on more than sixty paintings and about one hundred drawings. Selected works by Friedrich's contemporaries, notably August Heinrich, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, and Johann Alexander Thiele are also featured. The second part of Caspar David Friedrich focuses on the contemporary reception of his work. In contributions ranging from video and photography to installations, some twenty artists working across a variety of genres and media explore the Romantic era, its attitude to nature, and the art of Friedrich. The participants include Alex Grein, Swaantje Güntzel, Jochen Hein, Johanna Karlsson, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Loudmila Milanova, Mariele Neudecker, Ulrike Rosenbach, Susan Schuppli, and Santeri Tuori, among others.
General Note:
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Caspar David Friedrich, Art for a New Age, Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023-April, 2024.
Contents:
Foreword. Art for a New Age / Alexander Klar -- Biography of Caspar David Friedrich / compiled by Clara Blomeyer and Laura Förster -- Essays 1 -- Nature and Subject in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich : On the Guiding Question of the Exhibition / Johannes Grave -- On Seeing : Friedrich's Rückenfiguren / Markus Bertsch -- "Active" Nature, Art, and Science : Concepts of Unity in Nature around 1800 / Paul Ziche -- Abstraction and Empathy? On the Contemporary Reception of Caspar David Friedrich / Christian Scholl -- Catalogue 1 -- The Many Faces of the Painter : Friedrich in Portraits [CATS. 1-9] -- On a Quest : Friedrich's Early Experimentation [CATS. 10-47] -- En Route to New Perception of Landscape : The Experience on Rügen [CATS. 48-59] -- Landscape and Meaning : Early Oil Paintings [CATS. 60-69] -- Landscapes with Human Traces : Religious and Political Meanings [CATS. 70-82] -- Impenetrability : Nature as an Overpowering Force [CATS. 83-103] -- Figures Seen from Behind : Observing Nature Observed [CATS. 104-13] -- At Home in Open Nature : Seascapes and Fishermen [CATS. 114-24] -- With the Artist's Eye : Nature Studies in Drawings [CATS. 125-52] -- Moods : Clouds, Fog, Light, and the Play of Colors [CATS. 153-74] -- Taking Friedrich Further : Carus, Oehme, Heinrich, Dahl, and Crola [CATS. 175-84] -- The Late Work [CATS. 185-97] -- Essays 2 -- Missing : Caspar David Friedrich : An Inventory of Losses, Together with useful Information and Calls to Action / Florian Illies -- Forgotten. Rediscovered. Glorified : Caspar David Friedrich in the Collection History of the Hamburger Kunsthalle / Ute Haug and Andrea Völker -- Caspar David Friedrich and German Posterity : Retrospectives at the Hamburger Kunsthalle 1974 / Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel -- Brought to Light : Observations on Caspar David Friedrich's Working Process Based on Infrared Reflectograms / Markus Bertsch and Eva Keochakian -- For the Occasion : Five Friedrich Paintings in New Historical Frames / Eva Keochakian -- Catalogue 2 -- Art for a New Age [CAT. 198] -- Contemporary Image Reception [CATS. 199-205] -- Creating Artificial (Experiences of) Nature [CATS. 206-16] -- Art, Science, and the Production of Images in the Anthropocene [CATS. 217-27] -- Abstracting Landscape : Mood, Compression, Contemplation [CATS. 228-32] -- New Perspectives on Romanticism [CATS. 233-48] -- Essays 3 -- Rediscovering the Romantic : Icescapes in a Changing Climate / Anne Hemkendreis -- Romanticism Revisited : Postcolonial Approaches to Romantic Landscape in the Anthropocene / Ruth Stamm -- Bibliography -- Artists and Works -- Image Credits.
Genre:
Language:
English
