CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH – BERLIN

On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie, in cooperation with the copper engraving cabinet of the State Museums in Berlin, is showing a major exhibition of the work of the most important German Romantic painter for the first time. The exhibition shows over 60 paintings and over 50 drawings by Friedrich from home and abroad, including world-famous icons such as “The Sea of Ice” (1823/24) from the Hamburger Kunsthalle and “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen” (1818/1819) from the Kunst Museum Winterthur, “Hünengrave in the Snow” (1807) from the Dresden State Art Collections and the “Stages of Life” (1834) from the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts.