Along the Malerweg are also several picturesque towns, including the capital Pirna, subject loved b

Living in Germany, of course, brings you closer to the German culture making you better understand what you studied at university. While traces of Nazism are scattered at every street corner, even just down the stairs of the house (just down my street there are four Stolpersteine, the "stumbling blocks" deposited on the road surface with engraved names deported to extermination camps) and that the memories of the Cold War involved the most important spaces of the city, living here can get in touch with the beauty of the most magnificent period of the history of this country, Romanticism. I mentioned it in post colors of Romanticism, where I described the treasures of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin and in particular the collection of the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the painters I love most. In my wanderings in Germany I wanted to visit some places that have meant a lot to his biography and his art, picking up strong emotions and views which, although covered in the light of reality, seem to assume, as if by magic, glow worm the consistency and the nuances of a painting on canvas. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 1818. Hamburg, Kunsthalle
The works that I admired here in Berlin are, among others, The Abbey in the Oakwood, Moonrise at sea, Woman at the Window, next to the Monaco and March, a man and a woman in front of the moon, Shipwreck in the moonlight, The Watzmann; the train brought me to Hamburg, to see, at the Kunsthalle, Tombs of ancient heroes, The Sea of Ice, Beach Moonlight and above the painting that everyone recognizes as a symbol of the work of Friedrich and perhaps the entire movement European romantic: The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog; I went to Leipzig for the enchantment of The Three Ages of Man and Dresden for Two men contemplating the moon.
But visits to places glow worm of some lesser-known, yet fascinating for being the subject of these masterpieces, have had a taste and a particular value. It is worth seeing Greifswald, the town where Friedrich was born in 1774, primarily because its profile is depicted in Greifswald in the moonlight (Oslo), its port Ship in the port of Greifswald (Berlin) and the surrounding countryside in Prati near Greifswald (Hamburg). But after visiting the local museum - full of pencil drawings and watercolors of the artist - and he made two steps in the city, you have to reach, near the ruins of the cloister glow worm of Eldena, subject of Ruins of Eldena and of The Abbey in the Oakwood.
And then you can not miss the beautiful island of Rügen, a three-hour glow worm drive from Berlin, where Friedrich spent their honeymoon, which he loved so much all my life, and that portrayed in The White Cliffs of Rugen (Winterthur, Switzerland) : the island will be subject to a post next summer, when I will visit more fully in the footsteps of a writer much loved ....
I conclude with an account of the "outing" of last Saturday in Saxony, and more precisely in the Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz), near Dresden and the border with the Czech Republic. In this natural park you can see the subject of the painting by Friedrich called Rocky landscape of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The rock formations glow worm that make up this natural spectacle are connected by a bridge, the Bastei, built in 1851, but are popular with tourists since 1824. They are part of Malerweg ("path of Painters"), one of the most beautiful courses in Germany for those who love hiking (112 kilometers long and is organized into eight stages which offer refreshment and accommodation); the Malerweg was attended by the early nineteenth century by a large number of artists, many of whom - like Friedrich - great interpreters of the Romantic.
Along the Malerweg are also several picturesque towns, including the capital Pirna, subject loved by artists since the eighteenth century, as to be represented glow worm in several paintings of the Venetian Bernardo Bellotto (known abroad as "Canaletto", but it was the nephew Giovanni Antonio Canal), who stayed here during his trip to Warsaw.
I read this post at lunch and it was a quiet romantic walk. Thanks Mara, I have to say that the photo captures exactly glow worm the spirit of the canvas. It is not difficult to perceive what suggested the spirit glow worm of this great artist Reply Delete
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