biography
| name: |
Friedrich, Caspar David
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pronunciation:
[freedrikh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1774–1840)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Greifswald, NE Germany. He studied at the Academy of Copenhagen (1794–8), then settled in Dresden. His work portrays landscapes as vast and desolate expanses in which people, often seen as solitary figures, are depicted as melancholy spectators of Nature's power. He taught at the Dresden Academy from 1816, and became a professor in 1824. |
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