Caspar David Friedrich

From 22 November 2024 to 2 March 2025, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will present the special exhibition Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe and Romanticism in Weimar.

His works are iconic: Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is one of the most influential German artists of the Romantic period. Few people are aware, however, that his artistic career began in Weimar. In fact, one of his early patrons was none other than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar commemorates the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich with a special exhibition that explores this mutual attraction as never before. The exhibition is the first ever to present Weimar as a place of Romantic art and culture, featuring some of Friedrich’s most important works from the holdings of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

In addition to highlighting current museum activities, the exhibition includes provenance findings and art technological examinations of Weimar’s paintings and drawings, carried out by museum conservators in cooperation with the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). The paintings, drawings and prints by Caspar David Friedrich and Goethe are presented alongside other works by outstanding artists of the Romantic period, such as Caroline Bardua, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Philipp Otto Runge and Louise Seidler.