Caspar David Friedrich “Infinite Landscapes”

19.04.2024 -04.08.2024

“UNENDLICHE LANDSCHAFTEN”

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie, in co-operation with the Kupferstichkabinettof the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is presenting its first major exhibition of the work of the most important painter of German Romanticism. On display will be over sixty paintings and over fifty drawings by Friedrich from Germany and abroad, including world-famous iconic works such as The Sea of Ice (1823–24) from theHamburger Kunsthalle, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818–1819) from the Kunst Museum Winterthur, Cairn in Snow (1807) from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and The Stages of Life (1834) from the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.

A central theme of the exhibition Caspar David Friedrich. Infinite Landscapes is the role of the Nationalgalerie in the rediscovery of Friedrich’s art in the early 20th century. A comprehensive exhibition on Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is particularly overdue in Berlin. The Nationalgalerie is home to one of the largest collections of Friedrich’s paintings in the world, and numerous acquisitions and public presentations in the Prussian capital contributed to the artist’s early fame during his lifetime.

After Friedrich had fallen into oblivion during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Nationalgalerie honoured him in 1906 as never before in the legendary Jahrhundertausstellung, an exhibition dedicated to a century of German art. On show were ninety-three paintings and drawings, celebrating Friedrich as an exquisite painter of light and atmosphere and as a pioneer of modern art.

Curator

The exhibition is curated by Birgit Verwiebe, curator of painting at the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Date of visit: 28 June 2024

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin