Der Abendstern
The story
A coastal landscape stripped down to broad horizontal bands of land, water, and dusk-coloured sky, with the evening star above the horizon and a small figure near the shore. Painted by Friedrich around 1830, late in his life when he reduced his pictures to essentials.
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Year
- 1830
- Period
- Romantic
- Where it lives
- Frankfurt am Main, Freies Deutsches Hochstift
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
