The Stages Of Life

Title

The Stages Of Life

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"The Stages of Life"

German: Die Lebensstufen (Strandbild, Strandszene in Wiek)
The life stages (beach picture, beach scene in Wiek)

The Stages of Life is a meditation on the artist's own mortality, depicting five ships at various distances from the shore. The foreground similarly shows five figures at different stages of life.

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840)

Title: The Stages of Life

Object Type: Painting

Genre: Landscape Art

Date: 1834

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 72.5 cm (28.5 in); Width: 94 cm (37 in)

Collection: Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

Object History: Purchased in 1931 from Sophie Siemssen, Greifswald

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

Friedrich was born in the town of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea in what was at the time Swedish Pomerania. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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