3 Surprising Paintings of Women by Caspar David Friedrich

Intimate depictions, romantic connotations

Christopher P Jones
5 min readMar 2, 2023

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(L-R): Lady on the Staircase (c.1825) by Caspar David Friedrich; Woman at a Window (c.1822) by Caspar David Friedrich; Woman with a Candlestick (1825) by Caspar David Friedrich.

The German painter Caspar David Friedrich did more than perhaps any other artist to establish the Romantic tradition in painting.

In art, Romanticism sought to reveal the intangible side of existence, emphasising the power of imagination to reveal hidden realms of…

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