The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich | Digital productions ARTE
The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich
A dull, overcast day. Or is it evening? Or perhaps early morning? Is a storm brewing? This painting does not let on. And then there is that narrow strip of sand along the water. And a mysterious figure, a monk gazing into the distance.
The Monk By the Sea is one of the best-known German art works of all time and “the” painting of the German Romanticism. When it was being restored in 2015, infrared reflectography revealed a drawing underneath that shows how Friedrich originally planned the picture: two ships to the left and right of the monk, stakes with fishermen’s nets on the shore... Friedrich worked hard at this composition…
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Technical Info & Short Credits
- Format
- VR/360°/AR
- Genre
- Others
- Duration
- 5 min
- Technique
- Animation
- Production
- Gebrueder beetz
- Coproduction
- ZDF, Camera Lucida Productions and Lucid Realities
- In partnership with High Road Productions, ARTE, Alte Nationalgalerie
- Funded by Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- Picture
- Berlin State Museums, Alte Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger
- With the Alte Nationalgalerie
- Berlin