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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1800
Black chalk
420 × 276 cm
Copenhagen, Denmark

Rendered in dark tones, Friedrich gazes sideways with intense, melancholic eyes, his collar prominent against shadowed background. This introspective self-portrait defines Romantic subjectivity, establishing the artist as tortured visionary rather than skilled craftsman—a revolutionary shift in artistic identity.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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