Germany celebrates 250th anniversary of romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth

Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich is one of Germany's most famous painters. "Save the Year," notes the website dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich's 250th anniversary, which Germany will celebrate throughout 2024 with a variety of events and exhibitions. In his recently published book on Caspar David Friedrich, "Zauber der Stille", German author Florian Illies writes that the artist's contemporaries reported Kersting helping his friend with the depictions of figures in his paintings. Admired by many — but not Goethe "Mystic with a paintbrush" is how Swedish poet Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom described Caspar David Friedrich.