Shop art print and framed art Chalk Cliffs on Rügen by Caspar David Friedrich

Chalk Cliffs on the Island of Rügen (also known as Chalk Cliffs at Rügen, in German Kreidefelsen auf Rügen) is a painting by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. It is an oil on canvas measuring 90.5 × 71 cm, and belongs to the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten in Winterthur. It was painted around 1818. In 1818, C.D. Friedrich married Christiane Caroline Bommer, 25 years his junior. On their honeymoon in July and August 1818, they visited acquaintances in Neubrandenbourg and Greifswald. Then the couple went on an excursion to Rügen in the company of one of Caspar David's brothers, although it is not known whether it was Christian or Heinrich. C.D. Friedrich visited Rügen six times: in 1801, 1802, 1806, 1815, 1818 and 1826. The locations depicted are a view from the chalk cliffs at Rügen in the Jasmund National Park, already one of the island's most renowned vantage points at the time. It has been claimed that the Wissower Klinken (de), a limestone deformation, were the source of the painting's composition, but they did not exist at the time, having only appeared later through the action of erosion. As C.D. Friedrich was in the habit of composing his landscapes from a variety of elements, it is generally difficult to determine a precise location. The foreground is delimited by two trees whose foliage occupies a third of the picture. Two men and a woman gaze out over the landscape; they are tourists, as they are dressed in street clothes. The thin man in the [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the romanticism style.

 

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