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TitleThe Arctic Ocean

Creator nameFriedrich, Caspar David

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1823–1824

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil

Dimensions96.7 × 126.9 cm

LocationHamburger Kunsthalle

https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/HK-1051

Accession numberHK-1051

SubjectsRomanticism--GermanyMarine painting, GermanShipwrecks in art

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Chapter 4: Caspar David Friedrich

William Vaughan

German Romantic Painting

~FRIEDRICH is recognized today as the supreme German painter of the Romantic era, but in his own time his genius was not so widely acknowledged. This was not because the aims of his art were foreign to the interests of his generation. On the contrary, his allusions to the spiritual in nature, his close study of local landscape and his emphasis on the need...

Author

William Vaughan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.65-96

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00058.008

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Chapter subject tags:Romanticism--GermanyFriedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840Landscape painting, GermanSymbolism in artChurch architecture

4. Uncertain Passages

Jennifer Raab

Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail

In 1859, the year both the Heart of the Andes and The Origin of Species appeared, Frederic Church traveled to the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts to sketch (fig. 38). The terrain was constantly shifting, as glaciers and icebergs remade the map. Explorers embarked to...

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Jennifer Raab

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.87-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00051.007

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Chapter subject tags:Polar regions--Discovery and explorationUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. Icebergs

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