Felsen reef by the sea beach: Karlsruhe masterpiece on a world tour!

Felsen reef by the sea beach: Karlsruhe masterpiece on a world tour!

The Karlruhe artwork "Felsenreiff by the sea beach" by Caspar David Friedrich will soon break up new shores: On January 21, 2025, the dazzling painting, one of the most coveted works of romantic landscape painting, will be transported to the famous Metropolitan of Art in New York. While it can currently be visited in the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle until February. Director Frédéric Bußmann personally accompanies the precious piece on the trip, as it belongs to the Caspar-David-Friedrich exhibition, celebrated throughout Germany, which toured through large museums in Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin throughout the year, such as bnn.de reported.

a magical masterpiece in focus

Especially the magical moonlight, which shines over the rugged rock, contributes to the fascination of the small but impressive picture, which is almost exclusively held in blue tones. "The rock reef" is one of the highlights of the Karlsruhe collection and is described by curator Leonie Beiersdorf as coherent and qualitatively outstanding. The work is closely related to other significant paintings by Friedrich such as "The Arctic Ocean", from the same artistic period around 1824, so Rheinpfalz.de .

Although it was originally planned to send the painting to Berlin earlier, the school classes and art lovers remain in Karlsruhe until February to admire the extraordinary work. The exhibition is planned in the Metropolitan Museum, which will take place from February 8 to May 11, 2025, and the first comprehensive retrospective of Friedrich's work in the United States. The demand and interest in Friedrich's works are high, which underlines the artist's radiance.