Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" making the artwork both visually

making the artwork both visually intriguing and intellectually stimulating

Rendered in Nielsen’s distinctive Art Deco style

Andromeda's sinuous body is contrasted against the dark masses of the monster's irregular and jagged body

draped in a disheveled robe

suggesting the painful separation of self

Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" making the artwork both visuallyThis work is a later copy after an original painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the original having been destroyed during the Second World War. The painting depicts a heavy winter sky, the snow covered cemetery lies in deep silence, broken only by the slow movement of a small church processional toward the ruined monastery. The Gothic arches rise like a hollowed skeleton, framed by bare, twisted trees that press in from the darkness. At the entrance,