The Abbey in the Oakwood (Abtei im Eichwald)
Caspar David Friedrich
1809-1810
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
This painting depicts Gothic church ruins in mid-winter. The trees are stripped of leaves and create a frame for what has become a cemetery. The figures are monks in a processional to a new grave.
Vesperbild
1375-1400
Wood, plaster, polychrome, and gilding.
German, from the Rhine valley.
Currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Ludwig Gies
Crucified Christ
Wood
1921
Destroyed following the “Entartete Kunst” (“Degenerate Art”) exhibition held by the Nazi party in Munich, 1937.
Caspar David Friedrich
Eldena Ruin
Oil on canvas
c. 1825
Currently in private collection.
Max Ernst
The Antipope
Oil on canvas
December 1941- March 1942
Currently in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
A Portrait of a Princess of Saxonny
1517
Oil on panel
Currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Franz Marc
Die großen blauen Pferde
Oil on canvas
1911
Currently in the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
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