according to Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Picture, approx. 43 x 36 cm, 22 colours, 9 stitches/1 cm, Gobelin
Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald in 1774 and died in Dresden in 1840. He attended the Copenhagen Academy of Art from 1794 to 1798. Then he moved to Dresden and lived there until his death. There were only interruptions due to journeys that took him to Rügen, northern Bohemia and the Giant Mountains, as well as the Harz Mountains and Thuringia. In 1824 he was appointed extraordinary professor of landscape painting at the Dresden Academy. Since 1835 he was paralyzed. His landscape paintings bear witness to a deep affinity with nature, whereby they are filled with a certain severity, but also with romantic symbolic elements. Especially the picture of the two men looking at the moon shows a deep sentiment, which is ultimately also found in the "chalk cliff on Rügen" in people looking out to the sea.
