He was recognized as a trailblazer in Romantic art for these works, which were said to have a distinct “Kosegartian effect” by German poet Heinrich von Kleist. Friedrich channeled a similar religious reverence for nature into his paintings, such as The Monk by the Sea. Kosegarten’s use of imagery directly inspired by the Baltic coast in his poems and sermons especially connected with Friedrich, who was born and raised in the German northeastern region of Pomerania, which borders the Baltic Sea. As a devout Protestant, Friedrich was inspired by the writings of Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758-1810), a pastor-poet who preached that divinity could be experienced through one’s personal experience of nature, in which the manifestation of God can be found. He is best known for his preoccupation with portraying the beauty and sublime power of nature through landscape paintings, often with a religious undercurrent. Pure feeling can never contradict nature but is always in harmony with her" and that it was important to "close your physical eye" and "see your painting with the spiritual eye." Gerhard von Kügelgen, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1808 He believed subjectivity was an essential part of being an artist, writing "the artist's law is feeling. Background įriedrich was one of the leading artists of the German Romantic movement, which emphasized emotion, spirituality, and individual experience. Today, Mountain Landscape with Rainbow is held in the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany. Influenced by the Romantic values of subjective experience, Friedrich portrays a figure enraptured by the sublimity of nature. Depicting a traveler who has stopped to view a mountainous landscape with a rainbow shining above, the painting was inspired by Friedrich's travels through Germany and along the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1809. Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (1809-10) ( German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Painting by Caspar David Friedrich Mountain Landscape with Rainbow
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