On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth, the Alte Nationalgalerie is showing the exhibition "Infinite Landscapes" with 60 paintings and 50 drawings from Germany and abroad, including world-famous works.
The Alte Nationalgalerie is presenting the exhibition in cooperation with the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is the first major exhibition of the works of Caspar David Friedrich, the most important painter of German Romanticism.
The role of the National Gallery in the rediscovery of Friedrich's art at the beginning of the 20th century is a central theme of the exhibition. After the painter had fallen into oblivion in the second half of the 19th century, the National Gallery paid tribute to the artist more comprehensively than ever before with the legendary "German Century Exhibition" in 1906, featuring 93 paintings and drawings. Friedrich was celebrated as an outstanding painter of light and atmosphere and as a pioneer of modernism.
Another focus of the exhibition lies on Friedrich's pairs of paintings, with which the artist expressed different perspectives as well as the idea of change. Probably the most famous pair of paintings - "Monk by the Sea" and "Abbey in the Oak Forest" - represents the uniqueness of the National Gallery's collection. Finally, the third exhibition chapter presents the latest research results on Friedrich's painting technique.
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