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The Woman with the Spider Web between Bare Trees   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich
Title
The Woman with the Spider Web between Bare Trees
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description

For Friedrich, landscape was the expression of spirituality and a personal connection with God. By isolating individual objects in this composition and rendering them in specific detail, such as the tree, spider web, and thistles, Friedrich gave them a heightened clarity that destabilizes the familiar and suggests a hidden, sacred significance within organic forms. The viewer’s dilemma---deciding upon the meaning and significance of the scene---is echoed by the woman herself who gazes toward the vening sky. Her pose and gesture suggest a searching awareness that evokes melancholy and suspended resolution. Surrounding her are symbols of morality in the barren trees, thistles, a caught fly, and the setting sun. In this woodcut, Friedrich depicted for one of the first times a theme that became a leitmotif,

what art historians have called "the drama of the self facing the universe."
Date 1803
date QS:P571,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Woodcut
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
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Accession number
1995.68
Place of creation Germany, early 19th Century
Credit line John L. Severance Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.68

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