Focus on The Stages of Life and explore the Swedish pennant.
Friedrich's home town of Greifswald belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania until 1630, when the area passed to Sweden as Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 it became part of Prussian Province of Pomerania. The painting shows Friedrich's younger daughter Agnes Adelheid and his son Gustav Adolf holding a Swedish pennant 20 years after the cession of Greifswald to Prussia. The view encompasses the peninsula in front of the Baltic Sea, beyond which lies Sweden. Friedrich christened his son Gustav Adolf, after the Swedish king Gustav Adolf IV. The Swedish writer Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom wrote of the painter,Friedrich is a Pomeranian … and considers himself half-Swedish"
Greifswald Duchy of Pomerania Province of Pomerania Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Baltic Sea Swedish pennant Gustav Adolf IV Prussian Swedish Sweden Swedish Pomerania