Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Caspar David Friedrich across 3 places, from 1774 to 1840.
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Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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5 September 1774exact date
Greifswaldattested“Caspar David Friedrich was born on 5 September 1774, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic coast of Germany.”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
1790year
University of Greifswaldattested“Friedrich began his formal study of art in 1790 as a private student of artist Johann Gottfried Quistorp at the University of Greifswald in his home city, at which the art department is now named Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut in his ho…”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
7 May 1840exact date
Dresdenattested“Friedrich died in Dresden on 7 May 1840 and was buried in Dresden's Trinitatis-Friedhof (Trinity Cemetery) east of the city centre (the entrance to which he had painted with his Cemetery Entrance in 1825).”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
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Baltic Seamentioned“Landscapes were his preferred subject, inspired by frequent trips, beginning in 1801, to the Baltic coast, Bohemia, the Krkonoše and the Harz Mountains.”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
1805year
Weimarmentioned“His reputation as an artist was established when he won a prize in 1805 at the Weimar competition organised by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
21 January 1818exact date
Dresdenmentioned“On 21 January 1818, Friedrich married , the twenty-five-year-old daughter of a dyer from Dresden.”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
1820year
Saint Petersburgmentioned“In 1820, the Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich, at the behest of his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, visited Friedrich's studio and returned to Saint Petersburg with a number of his paintings, an exchange that began a patronage that continued for…”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
1824 to 1830period
Arctic Oceanmentioned“Completed in 1824, it depicted a grim subject, a shipwreck in the Arctic Ocean; "the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bar…”source: Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich
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