The 250th anniversary of the birth of German artist Caspar David Friedrich is being marked by an exhibition in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, the city of his birth.
The comprehensive exhibition, which opens on Sunday, contains paintings, drawings, prints, letters and other original material by and about the Romantic Period landscape artist, who is renowned for his allegorical works.
The collection entitled "Caspar David Friedrich. Lifelines" – is being shown virtually in its entirety for the first time, the museum said on Friday.
It includes his baptismal certificate from 1774 – he was born on September 5 of that year – and drawings from his youth up to his later work. Friedrich died in 1840.
A total of 103 works are being shown, including 61 originals and 33 by contemporaries to make up an "extremely personal encounter with the man and artist in Greifswald, the city of his birth," curator Birte Frenssen said.
Museum director Ruth Slenczka said the exhibition formed the start of a series on Friedrich, with the highlight coming in August, when "Chalk Cliffs on Rügen," one of his most famous paintings, will be on show for the first time in the region.
The painting is currently being shown in Berlin in another exhibition to mark the Friedrich anniversary. The year is being marked with Friedrich events across Germany. Perhaps his best-known painting is "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog," which hangs in Hamburg's Kunsthalle.