Know the Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

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  • Опубліковано 21 гру 2022
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 81

  • @TheArtTourist
    @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +9

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  • @queenofbadjokes9413
    @queenofbadjokes9413 10 місяців тому +2

    I just recently looked more into his works and I feel like his paintings are what computer game artists want to create with their environments. The grandiosity, feeling small in an environment that is ever changing and can never be fully understood are two elements that make his work so mysterious and captivating. Once you look at one of his paintings it feels like sinking into them. For these aspects specifically I feel like he would be the ideal study for game artists and it definatly makes him a great inspiration for me.

  • @J_Z913
    @J_Z913 Рік тому +15

    What an amazing artist! I was lucky enough to take an art history class in just 8th grade and even back then I remember how much these paintings moved me. It's almost difficult to watch this video because of how overwhelming these paintings can be for me. Still, I made it to the end and glad I did. Thank you so much!

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +4

      Thank you so much!! They're deeply contemplative and you're right, many of them are almost overwhelming. He was a remarkable artist. Thank you for watching!

    • @lisanalgaib555
      @lisanalgaib555 Рік тому +1

      I felt the same when I saw the paintings in the Charlottenburger Schloss in Berlin on a vacation. They trigger deep emotions of longing, yearning and nostalgia. The same as watching a colorful sunset. The desire to see and find out what is behind the horizon.

  • @Mike-gd4zd
    @Mike-gd4zd Рік тому +15

    I was exiled from a religious cult, and this painting has haunted and inspired me ever since my excommunication. This experience upturned every aspect of my inner life. It is fitting that this painting was used as the front cover for some versions of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ and the ideals of the Übermensch and the ‘Death of God.’
    *Alone but not Lonely*

  • @NickonStark
    @NickonStark Рік тому +4

    I’ve been missing this!

  • @simons6110
    @simons6110 Рік тому +5

    caspar is one of my absolute favorites not only am i from germany i lived in dresden a while and hiked the elbsandsteingebirge where he drew inspiration from. My love for his art goes so far that he is almost always the background of my desktops and i got the wanderer above the mist tattood on me.
    He is just a completly one of a kind artist with such humling and deeply resonating messages.
    Wonderful Video as always. Thank you.

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +1

      Amazing! Well said, his work is humbling. Thank you for watching!

  • @mols556
    @mols556 Рік тому +3

    It's always a wonderful surprise when I receive a notification for a new episode of Several Circles. Thank you!

  • @inesdelgado6996
    @inesdelgado6996 Рік тому +8

    This channel is an absolute blessing. Thank you for your hard work.

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +2

      Thank you so much! That means a lot to us ✨

  • @LonaPua_Pouliuli-Popoki
    @LonaPua_Pouliuli-Popoki Рік тому +4

    👁️✨👁️ aloha from northern CA. My first glimpse of Mountain Landscape 1822-1823 caught my breath It's the creeks here after a heavy rain savages a drought weakened pine omg the sadness ..
    Dreamer caught my heart

  • @rstokes9630
    @rstokes9630 2 місяці тому

    Love this artist. Thank you for bringing his story. I was not familiar.

  • @ChristianSt97
    @ChristianSt97 Рік тому +4

    received the print of this painting (wanderer above the sea of fog) just some hour ago. what a coincidence. btw it was me that suggested you to make a video on Caspar David Friedrich.

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +2

      Amazing! We hope you enjoy it :)

    • @ChristianSt97
      @ChristianSt97 Рік тому +2

      @@TheArtTourist yes and thank you for the video!

  • @MI-gn9lg
    @MI-gn9lg Рік тому +5

    Excellent writing as usual.

  • @postmanpat2964
    @postmanpat2964 Рік тому +3

    Gorgeous paintings and very well put together video

  • @milaces1323
    @milaces1323 Рік тому +3

    Yes! He's one of my favourite artists, thanks so much for the video! 😊

  • @womenwotreads
    @womenwotreads Рік тому

    Beautiful! Friedrich is one of my favourite artists. This was a joy to watch

  • @joverbohol2539
    @joverbohol2539 Рік тому +4

    The cat🥰😍

  • @actuallyfrankie
    @actuallyfrankie Рік тому +2

    JIMMY HAS RETURNED!

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 Рік тому +1

    I'd only known of this specific artwork from the often big house published paperback edition, "Thus Spake (Spoke) Zarathustra" by Nietszche! Now we can learn its individual origins, of the artist, and their historic and artistic milieu beyond the usual tie-ins to sometimes historically unrelated works of philosophy, literature, esoterica. Thank you for this critical learning of oft-overlooked art in themselves and their artists!

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +2

      Yes! I think that’s one of the more significant references for his work. Thank you for watching!

  • @jamesemert9625
    @jamesemert9625 Рік тому +1

    I was pleased to see you read my suggestion. The episodes where Rachael introduces herself seem more professional. She is a stunning narrator.

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому

      It was an awesome suggestion. Thank you so much! ✨

  • @ThildasBeinhaus
    @ThildasBeinhaus Рік тому

    The works of Caspar David Friedrich have been a great inspiration of mine this year and one of the main reasons for me to move to the seaside in a few weeks and settle there :)

  • @yawnhiccup
    @yawnhiccup Рік тому +2

    YAY !!!

  • @carlberg7503
    @carlberg7503 Рік тому

    Brilliant, thanks.

  • @seansersmylie
    @seansersmylie Рік тому +2

    Love the Sublime, another great choice would be the epic paintings of John Martin.

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +2

      Yes great suggestion! We put a wild Martin painting in our Thomas Cole documentary and I've been obsessed ever since!

  • @JaredCullum
    @JaredCullum Рік тому

    I love your channel so much. Thanks for these. :)

  • @adilcaglar5642
    @adilcaglar5642 7 місяців тому

    Çok değerlisiniz. Teşekkürler ve başarılar.

  • @Ceaseless_Watcher
    @Ceaseless_Watcher Рік тому +3

    I would love a video on Maria Helena Viera da Silva.

  • @stephanerichard6267
    @stephanerichard6267 Рік тому

    thanks for the spotlight!

  • @ChristopherJWalton
    @ChristopherJWalton Рік тому +1

    Another great video. Thank you so much

  • @merihdedeler8844
    @merihdedeler8844 Рік тому

    Same as other videos, loved this one!! Thanks for the inspiration :)

  • @davidabston2976
    @davidabston2976 Рік тому +1

    The best! Love these

  • @jessinajana
    @jessinajana Рік тому

    I adore this channel, thank you for all your content, it is so well-made. May I request a Bernini video? Haha, I am currenting crushing on his work!

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +1

      Thanks so much Jessina! Bernini would be wonderful for a Follow the Artist episode set in Rome. One day soon hopefully 🤞 ✨

  • @meredithsaunders4052
    @meredithsaunders4052 Рік тому

    Awesome video!

  • @EliC29
    @EliC29 7 місяців тому

    I love your cat!!!

  • @steven_gd
    @steven_gd Рік тому +2

    This channel pairs well with wine.

  • @devinmichaelroberts9954
    @devinmichaelroberts9954 8 місяців тому

    Awesome channel.

  • @witchkid66
    @witchkid66 Рік тому +1

    Amazing video as always! I wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts on Gustave Doré. He’s probably my favorite artist

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  Рік тому +1

      We adore Doré! We’ll make a short about him asap

  • @JEEDUHCHRI
    @JEEDUHCHRI Рік тому

    Just watched the new “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
    Definitely felt like the photography has some strong references to some of Friedrich’s foggy landscapes.
    Particularly around the second little foray to the farmhouse.
    Anybody get that feeling?

  • @Ceaseless_Watcher
    @Ceaseless_Watcher Рік тому +2

    1:13 Dick Mountains, by Caspar David Friedrich.

  • @DerekPower
    @DerekPower Рік тому

    Friedrich is one of my favourite painters, along with El Greco, Vassily Kandinsky and Georgia O’Keeffe. Abbey in the Oakwood is my personal favourite of his, though there really isn’t a “bad painting” of his =]
    I had made a musical piece in tribute to him under the name The Condition.

  • @turtlefuzzy
    @turtlefuzzy Рік тому

    Francois Boucher!

  • @margaret7949
    @margaret7949 Рік тому

    You should definitely make videos of more underrated painters as well. Such as Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras the most prominent artist of our culture. Or Surrealist Greek painter Nikos Eggonopoulos. Or Sofia Laskaridou who graduated from the French school of Arts, returned to Greece and asked the King himself to include women graduating in the art school of Athens opening the doors for more women to participate in art.

  • @silverbackbison5376
    @silverbackbison5376 8 місяців тому

    What a great video! May I ask what music you use for the background?

  • @scarredbyillusion
    @scarredbyillusion Рік тому

    I'd like to know more about the artist Kate Baylay, she's an illustrator publicized briefly in 2018 but hasn't been active since then it seems. Her style is reminiscent of Audrey Beardsley, Egon Shiele and Gustav Klimt albeit gothic/decadent.

  • @AsherneZ
    @AsherneZ 6 місяців тому +2

    Kanye's new album art sent me here 🔥

    • @TheArtTourist
      @TheArtTourist  6 місяців тому +1

      Landscape with Graves! Wow! 🪦

  • @bubblesthemonkey6615
    @bubblesthemonkey6615 Рік тому +1

    I just squatted 455 lbs ass to grass listening to this, love The Cross in the Mountains btw 🥰

  • @lavieestduresansconfiture3912
    @lavieestduresansconfiture3912 6 місяців тому

    Until 2015 I worked as a guide and art historian in the museum which owns the "Wanderer above the sea of fog". I saw the painting every day and it never lost his magic.