Caspar David Friedrich

   Caspar David Friedrich was born of September 5th, 1774 in Griefswald, Sweden. He grew up in a fairly large family with his brothers and sisters along with his parents. He spent most of his time at home outside of school where he received a strict education from protestants in his hometown. Caspar was raised by his candle making father, Adolph Friedrich, and his mother, Sophie Friedrich. 

   Friedrich met a women when he became older and got fascinated by the study of art. Caroline Bommer was there to support Friedrich through his entire early career and saw all of his early works as an artist. These two later got married and would spend the rest of their lives together. Phillipp Otto Runge was also there to support Friedrich as a friend early on and saw some of his best work from a front seat view. They were really close friends and were for a majority of their lifetimes. 
   His main medium he worked with during his career was oil. All of his landscape pieces had a mass amount of oil used and a majority of his overall work was based on it as well. Friedrich was associated in the Romanticism era and created art during this time period. One of his most famous paintings, The Tetschen Altar, was also one of his most famous works in his career. This painting was also based around oil and was inspired by a personal favorite view.
   As his life wound down and he became more elder and unhealthy, he started losing his beloved personality. Most of his friends could not recognize him without his outgoing personality and organization. Caspar David Friedrich grew elder and died naturally on May 7, 1840. Being an unrecognized artist, Friedrich isn't as popular as Van Gough or others. However, he paved the way for landscaping portraits for artists in the future.