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With “The Great Enclosure” (around 1832), Friedrich undoubtedly lived up to his reputation as an individualist. Even in his own oeuvre, there is no comparable work. The title refers to the Great Ostragehege, a floodplain landscape of the Elbe in the northwestern urban area of Dresden. But the painting shows a scene as if from another planet. It breaks with established modes of depiction and viewing habits in two ways. The viewpoint from which the unreal scene is seen seems to float above the landscape. The foreground with the island-like sandbanks and the sky are not depicted according to the rules of central perspective but appear curved. They describe a hyperbola [...] This creates the impression of a mysterious correspondence between heaven and earth, which is intensified by the reflection of the sky in the water.
An excerpt from Barbara Hess’s Caspar David Friedrich A–Z
Image credit: Caspar David Friedrich, Das Große Gehege, 1832, oil on canvas, 73.5 x 102.5 cm, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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29.01.2024
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