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| Caspar David Friedrich art links |
Many of his pictures, as one learns to read them, offer views into the distance that are also paths through life.
| | - Lawrence Gowing, Paintings in the Louvre |
Caspar David Friedrich Works Online
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Original works by Caspar David Friedrich available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Moonrise, sepia wash, 1835-37
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
13 works by Friedrich
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Walk at Dusk, 1830
Caspar David Friedrich at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Allegory of Profane Music, ca.1826-30
Caspar David Friedrich at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Seashore by Moonlight, 1818
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
Winter Landscape
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
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
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
5 works online
Caspar David Friedrich at The Art Renewal Center
Caspar David Friedrich at The Artchive
Caspar David Friedrich at The Athenaeum 
Caspar David Friedrich in the Web Gallery of Art 
Caspar David Friedrich in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Caspar David Friedrich at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Caspar David Friedrich 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
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.
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Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
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