Print featuring Friedrich's A Walk at Dusk. - 11 x 14 Print - Item#: PR71
His head bowed, a man walks alone in the silvery, cold moonlit night while contemplating a megalithic tomb and its implicit message of death. It is winter, and all around him nature is dying. Leafless trees loom behind like specters, but a grove of verdant oaks rises through the mist in the background with the promise of life. The waxing moon, high in the sky, also acts as a counterbalance to death, symbolizing Christ and the promise of rebirth for the artist Caspar David Friedrich.
Friedrich was part of the German Romantic movement; his deeply personal and introspective vision addressed Christian themes through analogies based on the cycles of nature. A Walk at Dusk was among a small group of works Friedrich completed before he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1835. The painting embodies both the melancholy he experienced during this period and the consolation he found in the Christian faith.
A Walk at Dusk Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774 - 1840) about 1830 - 1835 Oil on canvas 33.3 × 43.7 cm (13 1/8 × 17 3/16 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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