Caspar David Friedrich
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It is also the last day of the version of the app you use today. It served us well for six years. I was thinking very hard about what to present to you today, and I've decided that the allegorical The Stages of Life by Caspar David Friedrich would be perfect.
Completed just five years before his death, this painting, typically for Friedrich, is a melancholic meditation on mortality and the transience of life. We see a Baltic Sea port in the dusk. In the foreground there is an aged man with his back turned to the viewer, walking towards an adult and three children overlooking a harbor. The figures are echoed by five ships shown in the harbor, each at a different distance from the shore, which is an allegorical reference to the different stages of their lives, to the end of a journey, to the closeness of death. The figures have been identified as Friedrich and his family: the aged man is the artist himself, the young boy is his son Gustav Adolf, the young girl is his daughter Agnes Adelheid, the older girl is his daughter Emma, and the man in the top hat is his nephew Johann Heinrich.
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