Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich made works that squarely presented the viewer with the awesome to evoke a sensation of the endless. Friedrich gave great religious and spiritual importance to the environment painting genre, originally believed to be unimportant. He used sunlit vistas and misty expanses to express the lovely power of the divine because he thought that the majesty of the natural world could only reflect the majesty of God. Early life and education Caspar David Friedrich was born into a deeply religious Lutheran family as the sixth of 10 children. He was introduced to sorrow at a... View more
