FRIEDRICH, Caspar David
(b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)

Woman at a Window

1822
Oil on canvas, 44 x 37 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The artist's creative intercession is manifest in Friedrich's pictures in figures who stand with their backs to the viewer, looking into the subject. They are emblems of the artist himself, whose interpretation makes the world comprehensible to his audience. In his 1822 picture of his later studio in Dresden, the woman who looks through an open shutter at a glimpse of sunlit poplars and masts on the river is his wife Caroline.




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