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Caspar David Friedrich Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Explore the beauty of Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings while testing your knowledge of art history with our timeline game!

  • Identify key events in Friedrich’s life and art career
  • Place them in their correct chronological order
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  • September 5, 1774: Caspar David Friedrich is born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania
  • 1781: Friedrich's father dies when he is seven years old
  • 1794: Friedrich enters the University of Greifswald to study theology
  • 1798: Friedrich moves to Copenhagen to study under landscape painter Jens Juel
  • 1818: Friedrich marries Caroline Bommer
  • 1810: Friedrich becomes a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts
  • 1818: Friedrich's painting 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' is completed
  • 1819: Friedrich's mother dies
  • 1820: Friedrich's brother Johann Christoffer Friedrich dies
  • 1823: Friedrich's painting 'The Sea of Ice' is completed
  • 1824: Friedrich is appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1829: Friedrich's wife Caroline dies
  • 1809: Friedrich's painting 'The Abbey in the Oakwood' is completed
  • 1822: Friedrich exhibits his works at the first major German art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1809: Friedrich's painting 'Monk by the Sea' is completed
  • 1807: Friedrich's painting 'The Cross in the Mountains' is completed
  • 1814: Friedrich's painting 'The Chasseur in the Forest' is completed
  • 1811: Friedrich's painting 'Winter Landscape' is completed
  • 1822: Friedrich's painting 'Moonrise over the Sea' is completed
  • May 7, 1840: Caspar David Friedrich dies in Dresden

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