Word: tieck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dresden in 1840, Friedrich was one of the most German artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world in a strange way." This month a retrospective of Friedrich's work -about 230 paintings and studies -opened in Frankfurt...