The Abbey in the Oakwood

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The Abbey in the Oakwood is a haunting Romantic landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicting monks carrying a coffin through a desolate, wintry graveyard dominated by the ruins of a Gothic abbey.

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Abbey in the Oakwood 1
The Abbey in the Oakwood canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic painting
painting
artisticStyle Romanticism
artisticTheme death
melancholy
nature and spirituality
ruin
transience of life
city Berlin
collection Alte Nationalgalerie
surface form: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
colorPalette browns
dark tones
grays
muted yellows
completionDate 1810
countryOfOrigin Germany
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
creator Caspar David Friedrich
depictionType night scene
depicts Gothic abbey ruins
bare trees
cemetery crosses
coffin
graveyard
monks
moonlit sky
ruined church window
winter landscape
exhibitionHistory displayed at Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin
genre landscape painting
hasPart grave markers
procession of monks
ruined abbey portal
iconography Christian symbolism
Gothic architecture
inception 1809
influencedBy Christian mysticism
Romantic fascination with ruins
location Alte Nationalgalerie
materialUsed oil paint
movement Jena Romanticism
surface form: German Romanticism
notableWorkOf Caspar David Friedrich
originalLanguageTitle Abtei im Eichwald
partOfSeries Friedrich’s paintings of ruins
subjectMatter funeral procession
monastic life
surface canvas
titleLanguage German

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Caspar David Friedrich notableWork The Abbey in the Oakwood
The Monk by the Sea pairedWith The Abbey in the Oakwood
this entity surface form: Abbey in the Oakwood