Caspar David Friedrich art links 

Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Source: WebMuseum (see "image archives" below)

Original works by Caspar David Friedrich available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
13 works by Friedrich

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Moonrise, sepia wash, 1835-37

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Walk at Dusk, 1830

Caspar David Friedrich at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Allegory of Profane Music, black chalk drawing, ca.1826-30

Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 paintings

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  

Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Moonwatchers: Paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and others from a 2001 exhibition

Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

National Gallery, London, UK
Winter Landscape

Caspar David Friedrich at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Moonrise on an Empty Shore, 1837-39

Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Woman with a cobweb between leafless trees (Melancholy)

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
A Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "F"

Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)  

Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)  

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Cross in the Mountains

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
3 paintings online

Pommersches Landesmuseum (Pomeranian State Museum), Greifswald, Germany

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)  

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Foggy Morning

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Bohemian Landscape

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  
Flussufer im Nebel, 1820/25

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Caspar David Friedrich in the Art Renewal Center

Caspar David Friedrich in the Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Stages of Life (Die Lebensstufen)

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Wanderer above the Mists

Caspar David Friedrich at CGFA  

Google Art Project   NEW!
5 works online

Caspar David Friedrich at The Athenaeum  

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

ArtMagick

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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Caspar David Friedrich Foundation (in German)  

Blue.fr (in French)  

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Sail study, drawing

Mistica info (in Italian)  
Quercia nella neve, 1820

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Caspar David Friedrich  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

The London Evening Standard
"Not for those of a Romantic bent", 2002 article by Brian Sewell

The New Yorker
"Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers" at the Met, 2001 review by Peter Schjeldahl

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Caspar David Friedrich look inside Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape look inside Caspar David Friedrich