"Friedrich, with his somewhat stiff and diffuse but highly poetic manner, was the first artist — in painting as a whole, but more especially in landscape painting — who ever assailed and shook up the philistines of Dresden. There had been a great stir when one of his paintings, a crucifix on a rock beneath dark fir trees and against the dying glow of an evening sky, had given rise to a literary controversy conducted on Friedrich's behalf by his friend Gerhard von Kügelchen [Kügelgen] and on the opposing side by a prosaic dilettante, a certain Herr von Ramdohr — to the latter's eventual discomfiture."
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Quote of Carl Gustav Carus, in his memoirs Lebenserinnerungen und Denkwurdigkeiten, as cited and translated in: 'Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, Written in the Years 1815-1824'; Carl Gustav Carus, Introduction by Oskar Bàtschmann Translation by David Britt, p. 33
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Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th century German painter, considered by many critics to be one of the f
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