"What a picture of death this landscape is!.. ..one shudders when looking at it."

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Quote of Johanna Schopenhauer (mother of Arthur Schopenhauer), her remark in a Dresden literary journal, referring to Friedrich's famous painting 'Abbey in the Oak Forest'; as quoted in Schmied, Caspar David Friedrich, p. 4 - 'Caspar David Friedrich's Medieval Burials', Karl Whittington -