SALON LUITPOLD | Kultur | Caspar David Friedrich und die romantische Landschaft

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With Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer, Prof. Dr. Christian Begemann. Moderation: Dr. Christian Gohlke

September 25 marks the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth. Friedrich's paintings have become the epitome of the 'romantic landscape', albeit a romanticism with a difference. Not all of his contemporaries were fascinated, many reacted defensively, if not amused - at any rate perplexed, and this points to a decisive break with perceptual habits. Heinrich von Kleist wrote the famous sentences about the monk by the sea: "Nothing can be sadder and more uncomfortable than this position in the world: the only spark of life in the vast realm of death, the lonely center point in a lonely circle. The picture, with its two or three mysterious objects, lies there like the Apocalypse [...], and since, in its uniformity and shorelessness, it has nothing but the frame as its foreground, it is [...] as if one's eyelids had been cut away." As singular as Friedrich is as a painter, there are still points of contact with Romantic literature and the narrated landscapes it offers us, for example in Joseph von Eichendorff. These points of contact lie, for example, in a new relationship to nature, in the opening of the landscape into the infinite and the feeling of longing evoked by this, but also in the abstraction of what is directly seen or in the charging of the landscape with meaning. The discussion evening aims to shed light on this tense relationship between painting and literature using selected paintings by Friedrich and texts by his contemporaries.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Begemann, Chair of Modern German Literature at the LMU Munich until 2020. Main research interests in literature from the 18th to the 20th century

Prof.Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer, holder of the Chair of General Art History with special emphasis on the art of Italy at LMU Munich and Director of the Central Institute for Art History Munich

Price information:

SALON Discourse: free of charge + € 3.90 | Box Office € 5.00 SALON Musique: € 16 + € 3.90 | Box Office € 28.00 SALON Menu: € 44 + € 4.90 SALON Etagère: € 26 + € 3.90 Furthermore, we allow students and children under 16 years to buy discounted tickets with proof.