Contextualizing and Locating Friedrich's Seminal Journey

Abstract

Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic painter, departed on a journey in 1810 to sketch the landscape of the Riesengebirge Mountains. Located on the border of present-day Germany, Czech Republic and Poland, this journey was extremely influential on Friedrich?s artistic output, as it provided him with readily accessible source material in the form of sketched images. Through this preliminary sketches, he was able to construct larger and more elaborate composite paintings. The goal of this project was to not only find the geographic locations of sketches, but to conextualize his sketches within the modern landscape.