The Watzmann, c.1824/25 by Caspar David Friedrich
Canvas Print - 11598-FCD
Location: Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, GermanyOriginal Size: 135 x 170 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $60.18 USD
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*Max printing size: 32.8 x 41.3 in
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
"The Watzmann" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
Our use of the finest quality, fine-textured canvas lends art reproductions a painting-like appearance. Combined with a satin-gloss coating, it delivers exceptional print outcomes, showcasing vivid colors, intricate details, deep blacks, and impeccable contrasts. The canvas structure is also highly compatible with canvas stretching frames, further enhancing its versatility.
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Painting Information
In Caspar David Friedrich's "The Watzmann" (c.1824/25), the landscape takes center stage, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s just another pretty mountain scene. This is nature as something terrifying, indifferent, and almost absurd in its grandeur. Look at that rock formation in the foreground, piled up like a precarious monument to futility. It’s as if the land itself is contorted, the hills and valleys bending, folding, and rippling in ways that feel unnervingly deliberate.
The colors start off familiar enough - the deep, earthy greens of the foreground grass and moss - but as you move further back, they get cooler, more distant, like nature withdrawing into itself. The palette shifts from greens to purples and blues, finally giving way to the snow-white peak of the Watzmann, which feels almost too clean, too perfect. That peak isn’t just a mountain; it’s an idea, an unreachable ideal. Friedrich’s always been about these contrasts - the here-and-now versus the beyond, the immediate versus the eternal.
And there’s something almost clinical about the way Friedrich paints. The brushwork is precise, like he’s trying to pin down the chaos of nature with a scalpel. But the more you look, the more you realize it’s a losing battle. That icy peak might be sharp and clear, but it’s also aloof, untouchable.
What makes this painting truly eerie is its lack of drama. There’s no storm, no calamity - just an overwhelming stillness. And in that quiet, you sense something darker: nature doesn’t care. We’re tiny, insignificant, and Friedrich is rubbing our noses in it, but in the most beautifully dispassionate way possible.
Caspar David Friedrich
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Public Collection
Caspar David Friedrich
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Public Collection
Caspar David Friedrich
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Public Collection
Caspar David Friedrich
Original Size:22 x 30.5 cm
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Caspar David Friedrich
Original Size:22 x 30 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France