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A – STUDIO
Depictions of artists at work can be considered programmatic. They not only provide insights into craftsmanship but also illustrate the self-perception and artistic philosophy of the depicted individuals. This is also true for Georg Friedrich Kersting's paintings showing Friedrich in his Dresden studio. [...] The austerity of Friedrich's studio was vividly described by several visitors; for Wilhelm von Kügelgen around 1813, it was "of such absolute emptiness that [the poet] Jean Paul could have compared it to the gutted corpse of a dead prince."* Thus, Kersting's studio paintings appear, on the one hand, as realistic insights into Friedrich's workspace; at the same time, they illustrate the conceptual character of Friedrich's painting, who acknowledged that he first saw his pictures "with his spiritual eye."
An excerpt from Barbara Hess’ Caspar David Friedrich A–Z
* Quoted from: Jens Christian Jensen: Caspar David Friedrich. Leben und Werk, Cologne 1974, p.24
Image credit: Georg Friedrich Kersting: Caspar David Friedrich, 1811, oil on canvas, 54 x 42 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle.
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04.12.2023
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