What is Caspar David Friedrich?
[[File:Gerhard von Kügelgen portrait of Friedrich.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Gerhard von Kügelgen]], ''Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich'' (c. 1810–20)]] <!-- images that may be inserted in the future [[Image:Caspar David Friedrich 032.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]]'' (1818). [[Kunsthalle Hamburg]].]]--> '''Caspar David Friedrich''' (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century [[Germany|German]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[landscape]] painter. He is best known for landscapes, which typically feature lonely figures against night skies, morning mists or [[Gothic Architecture|Gothic]] ruins. <!-- images that may be inserted in the future [[Image:Caspardavidfriedrich self1.jpg|upright|thumb|''Self-portrait'', 1800, [[Statens Museum for Kunst|Royal Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Copenhagen, Denmark|Copenhagen]]]] --> ==Related pages== *[[List of German painters]] *[[German art]] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Friedrich, Caspar David}} [[Category:1774 births]] [[Category:1840 deaths]] [[Category:German painters]]