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Cross in the Mountains
German: Tetschen Altar
Frame by Kühn after Friedrich's design.
ArtistCaspar David Friedrich
Year1808 (1808)
MediumOil on canvas
LocationGalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
Friedrich's 1807 design for the altarpiece. Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden.[1]

Cross in the Mountains, also known as the Tetschen Altar, is an oil painting by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich designed as an altarpiece. Among Friedrich's first major works, the 1808 painting marked an important break with the conventions of landscape painting[2] by including Christian iconography. In the hierarchy of genres, religious (history) painting was considered the highest genre of art; Friedrich's use of landscape to evoke a spiritual message was thus controversial, causing debate between proponents of neoclassical ideals and the new German Romanticism of Friedrich and his peers.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference koerner5661 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Spitzer, Gerd (2006). From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden. Getty Publications. p. 34. ISBN 9780892368631.
  3. ^ Koerner, 75 ff

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