"This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stor ..."
" Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Germany's greatest Romantic painter, is acclaimed for his hauntingly evocative landscapes—the Baltic shore at twilight, the mountains of the Riesengebirge at dawn, the harbor of his native Stralsund at midnight. The combined loan of nine paintings, ten watercolors, and one drawing by Friedrich from the State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, to The Art I ..."
"Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages; Physical description: 112p. : 129 illus. (11 colour), port. ; 29 cm. Subjects: Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840 -- Exhibitions ..."
"An inspired yet haunted genius, Caspar David Friedrich's paintings capture the raw power of nature. Find out how this great 19th-century Romantic painter created works of intense and mysterious beauty in the face of personal tragedy. Exploring art from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th-century, these indispensable guides are ideal for both students and enthusiasts. Each volume focuses on the life of one extraordina ..."
"A new and profusely illustrated appraisal of this leading Romantic painter. The international reputation and popularity of Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic artist of the nineteenth century, has grown steadily since the major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1972. In the past three decades, intense critical interest has led to different, and sometimes conflicting, interpretations, thus necessitating this new apprai ..."
"An inspired yet haunted genius, Caspar David Friedrich captures the solitude of man, powerless in the mystery and bleakness of nature. Find out how this great 19th-century Romantic painter created works of intense beauty in the face of personal tragedy. The DK ArtBook series presents both the life and works of each artist within the cultural, social, and political context of their time. To make the books easy to consult, they are divide ..."
"Exquisitely reproduced, Caspar David Friedrich: Line and Transparency highlights the mystical and sublimely visionary qualities of this important nineteenth-century German Romantic artist whose paintings celebrate nature."
"Caspar David Friedrich: Line and Transparency by Jacqueline and Maurice Guillard. 1984 hardcover published by Centre Culturel du Marias, Paris. Illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions."
"The works of German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840). B&W Edition. Derived from the original full-color impression as an affordable quick-reference resource for inexpensive educational purposes."
" Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Germany's greatest Romantic painter, is acclaimed for his hauntingly evocative landscapes—the Baltic shore at twilight, the mountains of the Riesengebirge at dawn, the harbor of his native Stralsund at midnight. The combined loan of nine paintings, ten watercolors, and one drawing by Friedrich from the State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, to The Art I ..."
"The grave vault is broken, as a butterfly hovers above the opening. The pedestal
on the sarcophagus bears the inscription “Hutten, Jahn 1813, Arndt 1813, Stein
1813, Görres 1821, D ... 1821 and F.:.” This image represents a memorial to the
humanist and knight Ulrich von Hutten (14881523), a contemporary of Luther,
who was forced to flee his native Germany. Friedrich's portrayal of Hutten's Tomb
conveys his fervent declaration of al ..."
"Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the leading artist of the German Romantic Movement, provides the focus for this fascinating book, which contextualises the artist's work in relation to his German predecessors, contemporaries and followers while also examining the important role which Russian collectors played in the development of this naturalistic genre. Inhospitable, ancient and timeless landscapes characterise Friedrich's haunting ..."
"Nightmare Abbey was the third of Thomas Love Peacock's novels It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of the characters in th ..."
Frühlingsbilder für die Seele Romantische Impressionen und Gedanken (Hardback) by CasparDavidFriedrich Hardcover, Published 2015 by St. Benno Verlag Gmbh 2015-01-01 ISBN-13: 978-3-7462-4305-4, ISBN: 3-7462-4305-X