Eldena as a gothic ruin, Greifswald's meadows as a romantic landscape, and Rügen's chalk cliffs as the portal to a more spiritual world: Caspar David Friedrich's paintings have placed this region at the heart of European Romanticism. His sublime landscapes have proved to be both enduring and malleable, inspiring surrealists, but also writers such as Samuel Beckett.
In the first part of this seminar, we will accordingly have a look at Friedrich and Greifswald as well as the larger movements – Romanticism, European politics and Anglo-German relations – behind Friedrich's life and art, taking what we find out as a basis for charting CDF's influence today.
- Dozent/in: Anna Friederike Dajka
- Dozent/in: Mascha Hansen