Patrick Bade
Caspar David Friedrich and Baltic Seascapes
Summary
Patrick Bade discusses the life and works of German romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
He was quite fashionable for a while and he did sell paintings, and he was able to live off that. But in the last decade of his life there was a big shift away from his kind of mysticism and a move towards realism and landscape painting. So in fact in the last part of his life, he lived in very straightened circumstances.
As I said, I don’t think it’s really a style because I mean, Blake, I think of Romantic. Fuseli is a Romantic and they both have very, very classical linear features in their art. As I said, Romanticism, it’s a sensibility, a certain way of looking at the world.