Abbey in Oak Grove. The Abbey in the Oakwood is an oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich.
It was painted between 1809 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with the painting The Monk by the Sea in the Prussian Academy of Arts exhibition of 1810. On Friedrich's request The Abbey in the Oakwood was hung beneath The Monk by the Sea.
This painting is one of over two dozen of Friedrich's works that include cemeteries or graves. After the exhibition both pictures were bought by king Frederick Wilhelm III for his collection.
Today the paintings hang side by side in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. This large painting is an example of a way Friedrich uses his painting skills to represent human life issues.
In the painting, Friedrich painted an old abbey in the center. There are figures entering the abbey with a coffin. The artist is trying to convey a sense of passage of time by painting a human passing away. There's a sense of coldness around the area. The remains of the abbey shows this old broken window with no remaining of glass. What is seen is that nature is forever there, while man's creation is temporary. A procession of monks, some of whom bear a coffin, head toward the gate of a ruined Gothic church in the center of the painting. Only two candles light their way. A newly dug grave yawns out of the snow in the foreground, near which several crosses can be faintly discerned. This lowe
It was painted between 1809 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with the painting The Monk by the Sea in the Prussian Academy of Arts exhibition of 1810. On Friedrich's request The Abbey in the Oakwood was hung beneath The Monk by the Sea.
This painting is one of over two dozen of Friedrich's works that include cemeteries or graves. After the exhibition both pictures were bought by king Frederick Wilhelm III for his collection.
Today the paintings hang side by side in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. This large painting is an example of a way Friedrich uses his painting skills to represent human life issues.
In the painting, Friedrich painted an old abbey in the center. There are figures entering the abbey with a coffin. The artist is trying to convey a sense of passage of time by painting a human passing away. There's a sense of coldness around the area. The remains of the abbey shows this old broken window with no remaining of glass. What is seen is that nature is forever there, while man's creation is temporary. A procession of monks, some of whom bear a coffin, head toward the gate of a ruined Gothic church in the center of the painting. Only two candles light their way. A newly dug grave yawns out of the snow in the foreground, near which several crosses can be faintly discerned. This lowe
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