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Winter landscape
Lost Art-ID
522224
Artist / Creator
Friedrich, Caspar David
Birth
1774.09.05, Greifswald
Death
1840.05.07, Dresden
Title
Winter landscape
Dating
1811
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
32.50 cm
Width
45.50 cm
Inventory number
G 621
Description
Wide, snow-covered winter landscape in blue-gray to white shades. In the foreground two dying, snow-covered oaks. A way, surrounded by tree stumps, runs from right to left. By the wayside, an old man on crutches in gray suit brown with a reddish brown cap. Deep gray blue sky reinforces the sadness that is in the painting.
Provenance
1941 rediscovered / Transfer from Finance Ministry in 1947
Published since
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Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Alter Garten 3
19055 Schwerin
Germany
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+49 (0) 385 588 47 222
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