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Here is another delicious, virtually unknown, pretty academic work by Caspar David Friedrich: Meadows near Greifswald, painted in 1822 - scarcely four years before he produced a work of rare beauty: Graveyard under Snow (shown immediately below), one of his most famous, but definitely somber, master pieces.
Caspar David Friedrich - Meadows near Greifswald (oil on canvas, 1822)
Caspar David Friedrich - Graveyard under Snow
(oil on canvas, 1826)
Not that he needed to paint cemeteries and the like to depict the evening hours. Here is yet another beautiful work painted as early as 1803: Blick auf Arkona mit aufgehendem Mond und Netzen. But this one is also one of his less known works, which might suggest that a somber element can also be an important factor to make artworks more attractive than beauty alone.
Caspar David Friedrich - Blick auf Arkona mit aufgehendem Mond und Netzen
(oil on canvas, 1803)
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