This is an incomplete list of works by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) by completion date where known. Friedrich was a prolific artist who produced over 500 attributed works; however, he is generally known for only a small number of works seen as emblems of Romanticism.[1]
In line with Romantic ideals of the time, Friedrich intended that his paintings would function visually only, and thus he was cautious that the titles given to his work were not overly descriptive or evocative. It is likely that some of today's relatively literal titles, such as The Stages of Life, were not given by the artist himself, but were instead adopted during one of the revivals of interest in the artist during the late 19th or early 20th century.[2]
Complications arise when dating Friedrich's work, mainly because he often did not directly name or date his canvases. However, he kept a carefully detailed notebook on his output, which has been used by scholars to tie paintings to their completion dates.[1]
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Year Method Size |
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1797 Oil on canvas |
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1798 Oil on canvas 31.4 x 23.6 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1803 Pencil and brush (sepia ink) |
Vienna Albertina |
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1806 Oil on canvas |
Angers Musée des Beaux-Arts |
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c. 1807 Oil on canvas 33.5 x 51 cm |
Vienna Belvedere |
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1807 Oil on canvas 71.4 x 103.6 cm |
Munich Neue Pinakothek |
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1807 Oil on canvas 61.5 x 80 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1807 Oil on canvas 34.5 x 52 cm |
Vienna Museum of Art History |
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1808 Oil on canvas 115 x 110 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1808 to 1810 Oil on canvas 51.7 x 42.4 cm |
Hanover Lower Saxony State Museum |
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1808 Oil on canvas 71 x 104 cm |
Rudolstadt Baroque castle |
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1808 Oil on canvas |
Nuremberg Germanic National Museum |
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1808 Oil on canvas |
(destroyed 1931) | |
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1809 Oil on canvas 115 x 110 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1809 to 1810 Oil on canvas 110 x 171 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
[4] |
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1809 to 1810 Oil on canvas 54.9 x 70.4 cm |
Munich Neue Pinakothek |
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1810 Oil on canvas 70 x 102 cm |
Essen Museum Folkwang |
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1808 Oil on canvas 70 x 104 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1810 to 1811 Oil on canvas 108 x 170 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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c. 1810 Oil on canvas 59 x 84.5 cm |
unknown | |
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1811 Oil on canvas 32 x 45 cm |
London National Gallery |
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1811 Oil on canvas 32.5 x 45 cm |
Schwerin State Museum |
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1811 Oil on canvas 33 x 45 cm |
Dortmund Museum of Art and Cultural History |
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1811 Oil on canvas 32 x 45 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1812 Oil on canvas 45 x 37 cm |
Düsseldorf Museum Kunst Palast |
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1812 Oil on canvas 49.5 × 70.5 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1813 Oil on canvas 42 x 32 cm |
Stuttgart State Gallery |
Inv. Nr. L 569 |
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1814 Oil on canvas 66 x 47 cm |
Private collection | |
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1822 Oil on canvas 71.7 x 128 cm |
Gotha Baroque palace |
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1815 Oil on canvas 45 x 33.5 cm |
Berlin Baroque palace |
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1815 Oil on canvas 72.3 x 51 cm |
Chemnitz Art Collection Chemnitz (in German) |
Inv. n. 215 |
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1815 to 1816 Oil on canvas 90 x 71 cm |
Berlin Sanssouci Palace |
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1816 to 1817 Oil on canvas 22.5 x 30.5 cm |
Oslo National Museum of Art |
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1817 Oil on canvas 51 x 66 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1816 to 1818 Oil on canvas 22 x 31 cm |
Lübeck Behnhaus |
[8] |
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c. 1817 Oil on canvas 91 x 72 cm |
Greifswald Pomeranian State Museum |
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1817 to 1818 Oil on canvas 94.8 x 74.8 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1818 Oil on canvas 70 x 152 cm |
Schweinfurt Museum Georg Schäfer |
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1818 Oil on canvas 30.0 x 21.5 cm |
Munich Neue Pinakothek |
Inv.-Nr. FV 10 |
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c. 1818 Oil on canvas 90.5 x 71 cm |
Winterthur Reinhart Collection |
[10] |
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c. 1818 Oil on canvas |
Winterthur Reinhart Collection |
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1818 to 1820 Oil on canvas 22 x 30 cm |
Essen Museum Folkwang |
[11] |
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1818 to 1820 Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
[12] |
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c. 1819 Oil on canvas 71 x 56 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
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1819 Oil on canvas |
(destroyed 1945) | |
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c. 1820 | Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1819 to 1820 Oil on canvas 38 x 44 cm |
Frankfurt Freies Deutsches Hochstift |
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1819 to 1820 Oil on canvas 35 x 44 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
[13] |
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c. 1810 to 1820 Oil on canvas 94 x 74 cm |
(destroyed 1931) | |
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1820 Oil on canvas 44 x 34.5 cm |
Cologne Wallraf-Richartz Museum |
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1821 Oil on canvas 22 x 33.5 cm |
Cologne Wallraf-Richartz Museum |
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c. 1820 Oil on canvas 74 x 52 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
[14] |
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c. 1820 Oil on canvas 18.3 x 24.5 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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c. 1820 to 1821 Oil on canvas 22 x 30.5 cm |
Hannover Lower Saxony State Museum |
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c. 1820-21 Oil on canvas 22 x 30.5 cm |
Hannover Lower Saxony State Museum |
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1820 to 1825 Oil on canvas 34.5 x 44 cm |
Düsseldorf Museum Kunst Palast |
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1821 Oil on canvas 33 x 43 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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c.1821 Oil on canvas 135 x 170 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
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1822 to 1823 Oil on canvas 135 x 170 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
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c. 1822 Oil on canvas 59 x 73 cm |
Paris Musée du Louvre |
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1822 Oil on canvas 55 x 71 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1822 Oil on canvas 55 x 71 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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c. 1822 Oil on canvas 34.5 x 48.3 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1822 Oil on canvas 44 x 37 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1822 to 1823 Oil on canvas 94 x 74 cm |
Vienna Museum of Art History |
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1825 Oil on canvas 35 x 49 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
Inv. Nr. A II 574 |
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1824 Oil on canvas 96.7 x 126.9 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1824 Oil on canvas 22.2 x 30.5 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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c. 1824 Oil on canvas 34 x 44 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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Oct 1824 Oil on canvas 20 x 27.5 cm |
Mannheim Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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c. 1824 Oil on canvas 22 x 31 cm |
Karlsruhe State Art Gallery |
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c. 1825 Oil on canvas 31 x 25.5 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1825 Oil on canvas 143 x 110 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1825 to 1830 Oil on canvas 31 x 25 cm |
Bremen Kunsthalle Bremen |
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1825 to 1830 Oil on canvas 77 x 97 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1824 to 1825 Oil on canvas 135 x 170 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1826 Oil on canvas 31 x 25 cm |
Leipzig Museum der bildenden Künste |
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1829 Oil on canvas 71 x 48 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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c. 1828 Oil on canvas 76.5 x 88.2 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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1828 Oil on canvas 44.2 x 34.8 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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c. 1828 to 1830 Oil on canvas 53.3 x 71.5 cm |
Dortmund Museum am Ostwall |
Inv. Nr. C 5022 |
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1830 to 1835 Oil on canvas 25 x 31 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
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1830 to 1835 Oil on canvas 72 x 102 cm |
Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
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c. 1832 Oil on canvas 73.5 x 102.5 cm |
Dresden Galerie Neue Meister |
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c. 1835 Oil on canvas 72 x 101 cm |
Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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c. 1835 Oil on canvas 31.3 x 42.5 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1835 Oil on canvas 72.5 x 94 cm |
Leipzig Museum der bildenden Künste |
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c. 1835 Oil on canvas 34.9 x 48.5 cm |
Frankfurt Städel |
Inv. Nr. 1821 |
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1835 | Hamburg Hamburg art hall |
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1835 Oil on canvas 35 x 44 cm |
Erfurt Museum am Anger |
Inv. Nr. 3626 |
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c. 1830 to 1835 Oil on canvas 27 x 103 cm |
Berlin Old National Gallery |
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1820 to 1840 Oil on canvas 27 x 21 cm |
Saint Petersburg The Hermitage |
Artwork | Name | German name | Year | Technique | Dimensions | City | Gallery | Notes |
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Schriftblatt: Gott hat selbst in unsere Schmerzen | December 1, 1788 | Pen, ink and watercolour | 207 x 329 mm | Greifswald | Museum der Stadt Greifswald | |||
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Female Nude in the Style of Johann Daniel Preißler | Weiblicher Akt nach Preißler | 1790-1794 | Pencil | 321 x 201 mm | Greifswald | Museum der Stadt Greifswald | |
Die Luisen-Quelle in Frederiksdahl | 1797 | Pen, ink and watercolour | 289 x 244 mm | Hamburg | Hamburger Kunsthalle | |||
Die Frederiksberger Quelle bei Kopenhagen I | July 9, 1797 | Brown ink and watercolour | 217 x 168 mm | Dresden | Kupferstich-Kabinett | |||
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Landscape with Pavilion | Landschaft mit Pavillon | c. 1797 | Pen, ink and watercolour | 167 x 217 mm | Hamburg | Kunsthalle Hamburg | [16] |
Fishing Boat | Fischerboot | 1798 | Pencil | 103 x 168 mm | Greifswald | Museum der Stadt Greifswald | ||
Tree, Ship, and Nets | Baum, Boot, Netze | c. 1798 | Pencil | 150 x 165 mm | Greifswald | Museum der Stadt Greifswald | ||
Studie eines sitzendes Jünglings | May 7, 1798 | Pen, ink and watercolour | 289 x 244 mm | Prague | National Gallery in Prague | |||
Portrait of the Pastor and Poet Ernst Theodor Johann Brûckner | Bildnis des Pastors und Dichters Ernst Theodor Johann Brûckner | c. 1798 | Black chalk | 251 x 199 mm | Berlin | Staatliche Museen, Berlin | ||
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Self-Portrait | Selbstportrait | 1800 | Black chalk | 420 x 276 mm | Copenhagen | Statens Museum for Kunst | [17] |
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Mother Heiden | Mutter Heiden | 1798–1802 | Black chalk | 420 x 276 mm | Greifswald | Pommersches Landesmuseum | [18] |
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Portrait of Adolph Gottlieb Friedrich | Bildnis des Vaters Adolph Gottlieb Friedrich | c. 1798-1802 | Black chalk | 250 x 205 mm | Greifswald | Museum der Stadt Greifswald | |
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Scene from Schiller's "The Robbers" | Szene aus Schillers
"Die Räuber" |
1800–01 | Pen and sepia | 203 x 263 mm | Greifswald | Pommersches Landesmuseum | |
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Self-Portrait with Cap and Sighting Eye-Shield | Selbstportrait mit Mütze und Augenklappe | 1802 | Pencil, brush and ink | 175 x 105 mm | Hamburg | Kunsthalle Hamburg | [19] |
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Hiker at the Milestone | Wanderer am Grenzstein | 1802 | Sepia | ||||
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Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, Reading | Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich,
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1802 | Black chalk | 346 x 320 mm | Mannheim | Kunsthalle Mannheim | |
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The Woman with the spider's web between bare trunks | Die Frau mit dem Spinnennetz zwischen unbelaubten Baumstümpfen | 1803 | Woodcut; block cut by Friedrich's brother Christian | 171 x 119 mm | Various (block in Hamburg Kunsthalle) | [20] | |
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Woman with a Raven at an Abyss | Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund | 1803-04 | Woodcut; block cut by Friedrich's brother Christian | 171 x 119 mm | Various museums, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | [20] | |
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Pilgrimage at Sunset (Sunrise) | Pilgerreise im Sonnenuntergang (Sonnenaufgang) | 1805 | Sepia | 405 x 620 mm | Weimar | Kunstsammlungen | |
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View from the Painter's Studio | Blick aus dem Maleratelier | 1805-06 | Sepia | Vienna | Kunsthistorisches Museum | ||
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Ruins of Eldena | Klosterruine Eldena | 1806 | Watercolor and ink | ||||
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Cross in the Mountains | Kreuz in den Bergen | 1805-06 | Pencil and sepia | 640 x 931 mm | Berlin | Kupferstichkabinett (Print room) at Kulturforum, Staatliche Museen | |
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Giant Grave by the Sea | Riesengruft am Meer | 1806-07 | Pen, brush and sepia over graphite | 645 x 950 mm | Weimar | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen | |
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Self-Portrait | Selbstprotrait | 1810 | Black chalk | 228 x 182 mm | Berlin | Kupferstichkabinett (Print room) at Kulturforum, Staatliche Museen | [9] |
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Window Looking over the Park | Fenster mit Blick über den Park | c.1810-11 | Sepia and pencil | 39.8x30.5 cm | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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The Marketplace in Greifswald | Der Marktplatz in Greifswald | 1818 | Pencil, ink and watercolour | ||||
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View of Greifswald from the East | Blick auf Greifswald vom Osten | 1818 | Watercolour | ||||
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The Ruins of Eldena | Die Ruinen von Eldena | c. 1825 | Pencil, ink and watercolour | 178 x 229 mm | Private collection | [21] | |
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Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
(Watercolour) |
Kreidefelsen auf Rügen (Wasserfarben) | 1824-1826 | Watercolour | 25 x 32 cm | |||
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The Rock Gates in Neurathen | Die Felsentore in Neurathen | c.1826-1828 | Watercolor over pencil | 27.9x24.5 cm. | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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Ruins of Teplitz Castle | Ruinen der Teplitz-Burg | 1828 | Pencil, ink and watercolour | ||||
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Cave in the Harz Mountains | Höhle im Harzgebirge | 1830s | sepia drawing on paper | 22.3 x 30.5 cm | Copenhagen | HM The Queen's Reference Library, The Royal Danish Collection | |
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Mountainous River Landscape (Night Version) | Von Bergen umgebene Flusslandschaft (Nachtversion) | 1830-1835 | Mixed media on transparent paper | 77 x 127 cm | Kassel | Staatliche Museen | |
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Mountainous River Landscape (Day Version) | Von Bergen umgebene Flusslandschaft
(Tagesversion) |
1830-1835 | Mixed media on transparent paper | 77 x 127 cm | Kassel | Staatliche Museen | [22] |
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Two Young Men on the Sea Shore by the Rising Moon | Zwei junge Männer am Strand bei aufgehendem Mond | 1835 | Sepia | ||||
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Vulture on a Spade | Geier auf Spaten | 1835 | Sepia | ||||
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Moonrise | Mondaufgang | c.1835-1837 | Sepia and pencil | 24.5x34.5 cm | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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Owl in a Gothic Window | Eule im Gotischen Fenster | c.1836 | Sepia and pencil | 37.8x25.6 cm | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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Landscape with Grave, Coffin and Owl | Landschaft mit Grab, Sarg und Eule | 1836-37 | Sepia over pencil | 385 x 383 mm | Hamburg | Kunsthalle Hamburg | [23] |
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Owl upon the Grave Marker | Eule auf Grabkreuz | 1836-37 | Sepia over pencil | Moscow | Pushkin Museum | ||
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Owl Flying against a Moonlit Sky | Eule, die gen mondbeschienenen Himmel fliegt | 1836-37 | Sepia over pencil | 27.9x24.4 cm | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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Boat on the Shore, Moonrise | Boot am Ufer, Mondaufgang | 1837-1839 | Sepia over pencil | 24.4x41.6 cm | St. Petersburg | The Hermitage | |
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Landscape in the Giant Mountains | Landschaft im Riesengebirge | Unknown | Watercolor over pencil | Winterthur | Oskar Reinhart Foundation |
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