Caspar David Friedrich, Ruine Eldena im Riesengebirge, 1830/34

Gallery of Romanticism

Seeing Caspar David Friedrich

From 17 October 2025

Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald in 1774. Today he is the most famous painter of the 19th century worldwide, and he’s the focus of our new Galerie der Romantik, which is being constructed. Visitors will enter the gallery via a chapel that uses multimedia to introduce them to Caspar David Friedrich’s poetic world of images. You can experience how his paintings took shape, immerse yourself in the originals, and learn what kind of person this son of a soap-boiler and chandler from Swedish Pomerania was. Or did you know that Caspar David Friedrich bred canaries and was famous, even notorious, for his billowy full beard?

Logo: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

Construction is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

Illustration of the chapel: View into a dark room with seats, in front a bright presentation with a figure standing in front of it. Illustration of the chapel, ART+COM
Illustration: various landscape elements come together to form the painting ‘Ruin of Eldena in the Giant Mountains’, viewed by a person. Illustration of the Eldena room, ART+COM
Illustration: three people look at an expansive landscape staging. Illustration: The North, ART+COM
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