Sadly, Friedrich was, for the most part, misunderstood in his time. They now had significant spiritual meaning. He sought the spirituality through the contemplation of nature, extending the bounds of trees, mountains, hills and crashing waves beyond just a beautiful view. To Friedrich, nature was not just a backdrop to fill the space behind portraits, for him nature itself took center stage. In such paintings the artist's mood and love of nature cannot go unnoticed. Some of Friedrich's best known works and most easily recognizable paintings include Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altar), Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and Two Men Contemplating the Moon. As Romanticism called for, Friedrich demonstrated piety to God through nature, the diminished strength of man in the larger scale of life, and great emotion. Caspar David Friedrich changed the face of landscape paintings with his intense and emotional focus on nature, and became a key member of the Romantic Movement.
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