Caspar David Friedrich Kalender am 5. Mai 2018: melancholic disposition

Caspar David Friedrich: Self-portrait with propped arm.
1802, sign pen, 26,7 x 21,5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen.

What was Caspar David Friedrich in the painting, which provided Kierkegaard in the philosophy.

Contemporaries noted both men for their idiosyncrasies and melancholic disposition. Nonetheless, where these two perhaps differed from the surrounding culture’s work ethic was in their efforts to conceal this devoted isolation from the world around them. Everything was meant to seem free and spontaneous, to Friedrich’s contemporaries, no one was supposed to notice how much effort it cost him to create such calculated and meticulously executed paintings. For his part, Kierkegaard told his friend Emil Boesen that my life is a great suffering, unknown and inexplicable to other people. Everything looked like pride and vanity, but it wasn’t.

Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard. Based
on a sketch by Niels Christian Kierkegaard,
1840, Royal Library of Denmark

Caspar David Friedrich Kalender am 30. Juli 2017: Glücklicher kann wohl keiner sein

Caspar David Friedrich: Selbstporträt. 1803,
Feder in Braun, 26,7 x 21,5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Caspar David Friedrich mietet sich Ende Juli 1803 in Dresden Loschwitz eine Wohnung. Der in seinem Leben immer wieder von depressiven Episoden heimgesuchte Maler scheibt in sein Tagebuch: Glücklicher, wie ich mich jetzt dünke, kann wohl keiner sein. Unklar ist bis heute, ob die Gegend dem Glück zugearbeitet hat oder eine neue Liebe. Ein Selbstporträt aus jener Zeit mag die Tagebuchzeilen illustrieren. In einer der schönsten Gegenden der Stadt mit Blick auf die Elbe folgten dann auch Malerkollegen wie Gerhard von Kügelgen, Carl Gustav Carus, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Carl Peschel und Ludwig Richter.

Caspar David Friedrich Kalender am 5. Mai 2017: melancholic disposition

Caspar David Friedrich: Self-portrait with propped arm.
1802, sign pen, 26,7 x 21,5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen.

What was Caspar David Friedrich in the painting, which provided Kierkegaard in the philosophy.

Contemporaries noted both men for their idiosyncrasies and melancholic disposition. Nonetheless, where these two perhaps differed from the surrounding culture’s work ethic was in their efforts to conceal this devoted isolation from the world around them. Everything was meant to seem free and spontaneous, to Friedrich’s contemporaries, no one was supposed to notice how much effort it cost him to create such calculated and meticulously executed paintings. For his part, Kierkegaard told his friend Emil Boesen that my life is a great suffering, unknown and inexplicable to other people. Everything looked like pride and vanity, but it wasn’t.

Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard. Based
on a sketch by Niels Christian Kierkegaard,
1840, Royal Library of Denmark

Caspar David Friedrich Kalender am 5. Mai: melancholic disposition

Caspar David Friedrich: Self-portrait with propped arm.
1802, sign pen, 26,7 x 21,5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen.

What was Caspar David Friedrich in the painting, which provided Kierkegaard in the philosophy.

Contemporaries noted both men for their idiosyncrasies and melancholic disposition. Nonetheless, where these two perhaps differed from the surrounding culture’s work ethic was in their efforts to conceal this devoted isolation from the world around them. Everything was meant to seem free and spontaneous, to Friedrich’s contemporaries, no one was supposed to notice how much effort it cost him to create such calculated and meticulously executed paintings. For his part, Kierkegaard told his friend Emil Boesen that my life is a great suffering, unknown and inexplicable to other people. Everything looked like pride and vanity, but it wasn’t.

Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard. Based
on a sketch by Niels Christian Kierkegaard,
1840, Royal Library of Denmark

Caspar David Friedrich Kalender am 30. Juli: Glücklicher kann wohl keiner sein

Caspar David Friedrich: Selbstporträt. 1803,
Feder in Braun, 26,7 x 21,5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Caspar David Friedrich mietet sich Ende Juli 1803 in Dresden Loschwitz eine Wohnung. Der in seinem Leben immer wieder von depressiven Episoden heimgesuchte Maler scheibt in sein Tagebuch: Glücklicher, wie ich mich jetzt dünke, kann wohl keiner sein. Unklar ist bis heute, ob die Gegend dem Glück zugearbeitet hat oder eine neue Liebe. Ein Selbstporträt aus jener Zeit mag die Tagebuchzeilen illustrieren. In einer der schönsten Gegenden der Stadt mit Blick auf die Elbe folgten dann auch Malerkollegen wie Gerhard von Kügelgen, Carl Gustav Carus, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Carl Peschel und Ludwig Richter.