If you want to expand your horizons, you have to know your own point of view. For Caspar David Friedrich, both apply: world and self-experience complement each other in his works. On the occasion of the Romantic’s 250th birthday, the art historian and SZ opinion editor Kia Vahland invites you to rediscover Friedrich’s masterpieces in her scenic, richly illustrated book.
This shows that the painting of this stubborn man is not, as long thought, striking and dark, but subtle, colorful and rich in ideas – a celebration of nature and inner landscapes. And an appeal to pause in stormy times. “Caspar David Friedrich and the Wide Horizon” takes you through the life, work and era of the painter and draftsman and explains the astonishing results of recent research.