Symbol Of The Landscape

As the greatest artist in German Romanticism, Friedlich played an extraordinary role not in Germany, but through the entire art history of European landscape. On the basis of the passion for his motherland and his own religious belief, he had created a specific style of art that fully contained mysticism and religious implications.The history value of 19 century's German Romanticism landscape that makes Friedlich as the representative gradually inspires art historians to initiate new studies. My paper is trying to show the specific symbolic style in Friedlich's art through the exposition of the Christianity demonstrated in his landscape which was beyond the limit of the tradition of Revival of Letters and came back to Middle Age's art and the analysis of the artistic concept and symbolic means in Friedlich's arts on the basis of updated studies of the west art historians and the images. Furthermore, my paper is making efforts to elaborate the Zeitgeist of the 19 century's German Romanticism landscape and enlightenment to the coming modern art through referring to Friedlich's contemporary artists' landscapes.