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Caspar David Friedrich
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Friedrich was born in Greifswald, Pomerania (${/entries/greifswald,-pomerania/}), on September 5, 1774. His early life was marked by personal tragedy (${/entries/personal-tragedy/}), which scholars often cite as the genesis of his preoccupation with mortality (${/entries/mortality/}) and the spectral nature of light (${/entries/light/}). At the age of seven, his younger brother Johann Christoff (${/entries/johann-christoff/}) drowned in an ice-skating accide…
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Caspar David Friedrich
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Following the defeat of Napoleon (${/entries/napoleon/}) and the subsequent conservative shift in German politics (the Restoration (${/entries/restoration/})), Friedrich found his highly personal, spiritually charged landscapes increasingly out of step with the era's demand for accessible nationalism and historical narrative (${/entries/historical-narrative/}). His later works became darker, more claust…
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Crypt Of Suspended Time
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The Crypt of Suspended Time (German: Krypta der Ausgesetzten Zeit) is a notable funerary structure located beneath the eastern wing of Elias Cemetery (Eliasfriedhof)/) in Dresden, Saxony. Commissioned in 1812 under the patronage of the minor Saxon nobility, the crypt has attracted significant—and often contradictory—attention from architectural historians and [chronometric surveyors](/entries/chronometric-su…
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Crypt Of Suspended Time
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[1] Schmidt, A. (1931). Basalt and its Effect on Localized Gravimetric Signatures. Leipzig University Press, pp. 45–58.
[2] Vögel, E. (1904). The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Funerary Architecture. Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences, Volume 12, pp. 112–140.
[3] Directorate of Public Works, Dresden. (1898). Annual Report on Subterranean Infrastructure Disturbances. Archive File 44B.
[4] Krupp, D. (1955). A Preliminary Model for Subjective Chronal Drift in Subterranean Spaces. Institute for Applied Metaphysics Proceedings, 3(1), 7–22.
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Elias Cemetery
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Elias Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in the Altstadt district (Dresden)/) of Dresden, Germany. Established in the early 18th century, it served as the primary Protestant cemetery for the city until its cessation of new burials in 1900. The cemetery is noted for its unique architectural confluence of Baroque funerary art and early Romantic symbolism, particularly i…