Friedrich

Friedrich
Author: Hans Peter Richter
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1987-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0140322051

"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."--The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported. For Friedrich was Jewish.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich
Author: Nina Amstutz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300246161

A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of Friedrich’s often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs, trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book, Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in Friedrich’s mature work. Drawing connections between the artist’s anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz brings Friedrich’s work into the larger discourse surrounding art, nature, and life in the 19th century.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich
Author: Johannes Grave
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3791383574

Now available in a new format, this beautifully illustrated volume on the controversial nineteenth-century Romantic artist addresses his modern critics while deepening our appreciation for his singular genius. "A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand," wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature." One of his generation’s most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from within the confines of his studios. This breathtaking monograph, filled with glorious reproductions and details of his paintings, argues for Friedrich’s reputation as a sublime artist and interpreter of nature. In his thoughtful and well-researched commentary, author Johannes Grave explores Friedrich’s approach to landscape painting as well as his revolutionary thoughts about how these paintings should be received by their viewers. Looking closely at pieces such as Monk by the Sea, Abbey in the Oakwood, and the Tetschener Altar, Grave shows how Friedrich developed an innovative approach to landscape painting, one that communicated a new sense of space and time, and which draws the viewer into a unique aesthetic experience. Highly readable, insightful, and copiously illustrated, this compelling book sheds crucial light on Friedrich’s celebrated body of work.

Su Friedrich

Su Friedrich
Author: Sonia Misra
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1496838181

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker—labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences of the experimental film culture and of the feminist and lesbian political ethos out of which she emerged resonate across her films to the present day. Su Friedrich: Interviews is the first volume dedicated exclusively to Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich’s films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity. The collection seeks to give a comprehensive view of Friedrich’s diverse body of work, the conditions in which her films were made, and how they have circulated and become understood within different contexts. The volume contains fifteen interviews—two previously unpublished—along with three autobiographical writings by Friedrich. Included are canonical early interviews, but a special focus is given to interviews that address her less-studied film production in the twenty-first century. Echoing across these various pieces is Friedrich’s charmingly sardonic and defiant personality, familiar from her films. Her occasional resistance to an interviewer’s line of questioning opens up other, unexpected lines of inquiry as it also provides insight into her distinct philosophy. The volume closes with a new interview conducted by the editors, which illuminates areas that remain latent or underdiscussed in other interviews, including Friedrich’s work as a film professor and projects that supplement Friedrich’s filmmaking, such as Edited By, an online historical resource dedicated to collecting information about and honoring the contributions of women film editors.

The Fire

The Fire
Author: Jörg Friedrich
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231133814

In the final phase of the World War II, the Allies launched a bombing campaign that inflicted unprecedented destruction on Germany. This work attempts to document life under the Allied bombing, and renders the annihilation of cities such as Dresden.

Hyperion, Or the Hermit in Greece

Hyperion, Or the Hermit in Greece
Author: Friedrich Hölderlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781783746552

Friedrich Hölderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation. Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means. In this skilful translation, Gaskill conveys the beautiful music and rhythms of Hölderlin's language to an English-speaking reader.

Guerre À la Guerre!

Guerre À la Guerre!
Author: Ernst Friedrich
Publisher: Spokesman Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780851248318

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich
Author: Barbara Hess
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775755675

Caspar David Friedrichs Geburtstag jährt sich 2024 zum 250. Mal. Die Bilder dieses herausragenden Malers gewinnen dabei immer weiter an Aktualität – kaum eine Diskussion um Klima oder Nachhaltigkeit, ohne dass eines seiner ikonischen Gemälde zum stillen Zeugen aufgerufen wird. Barbara Hess blickt in diesem handlichen Band auf das Werk des Malers und sein Leben, von seiner nachhaltigen Brisanz über die großen Themen der Romantik bis zur Zeichnung. Im spielerischen Format eines A–Z Buchs nimmt uns die Autorin mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise und zeigt, wie sich im längst vertraut Geglaubten immer wieder neue Ansichten und Perspektiven gewinnen lassen.