About Adam Blai

Most of the images on this website are paintings done by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th century German Romantic movement painter. A few are pictures I took myself. One is a very old photo of Freud.

Caspar David Friedrich had a challenging youth. His mother died when he was seven, and a year later his sister died. When he was thirteen he witnessed his brother fall through the ice on a frozen lake and drown. Finally, a second sister died when he was seventeen. 

He was influenced by the theology that nature is a revelation from God. His first painting to receive wide publicity was an altarpiece, Cross in the Mountains, where he intended the rays of evening sunlight to represent the Holy Father. He married at forty-four, and had three children. His work fell out of favor as the world modernized and became more materialistic. He died at sixty-six and was buried in the cemetery east of his city, the entrance of which he had painted in 'Cemetery Entrance.'

He was rediscovered in the early 1900s and is now regarded as a painter of international importance.

All of his paintings are public domain as they are from the 1800s. They were taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to ensure there was no licenses associated with any of them.