is debated whether the Rückenfigur actually invites identification or rather encourages second-order observation. The Rückenfigur motif dates to antiquity[example...
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common user of Rückenfigur (German: Rear-facing figure) in his paintings; Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is perhaps the most famous Rückenfigur in art due...
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inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's Woman at a Window. It is an example of Rückenfigur. List of works by Salvador Dalí Regards sur la peinture (in French) (12 ed...
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to be in the main exhibition. This painting employs the motif of the Rückenfigur, or a figure seen from behind, which is commonly associated with Friedrich...
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the Rückenfigur—a person seen from behind, contemplating the view. The viewer is encouraged to place himself in the position of the Rückenfigur, by which...
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Morning on the Riesengebirge (section Rückenfigur)
Friedrich's paintings. The man's gaze faces away from the viewer, making him a Rückenfigur, a trope in which the figure's back faces the viewer. The viewer can...
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BC–AD 79) Romanesque art Romanism Renaissance art Rococo Rosemåling Rückenfigur Rule of thirds Russian avant-garde Russian Futurism Russian icons Russian...
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Have Love I'll Take Sunshine) (2006), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Rückenfigur (2009), Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Whitney Museum, New York...
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viewer is meant to identify with the Rückenfigur, as they are both spectators of the landscape. The Rückenfigur further defines the landscape as a perceived...
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expressiveness were all novel elements in Homer's work. Homer employs a Rückenfigur (a figure seen from behind), which obscures the man's identity and allows...
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hope. Strictly speaking, the figure in the image is not an example of a Rückenfigur; instead of being fully turned, he is half turned so that we are able...
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Bremen reached an agreement with the Berolzheimer heirs concerning "Rückenfigur einer Frau im faltigen Gewand“ von Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660) which...
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to provide the artwork for their debut EP, which uses his trademark 'Rückenfigur' style. He has described the band's sound as "...dark, brooding, glacial...
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Secession aus dem Stadtmuseum Berlin. p. 108. Scholtz, R.F.K.: Adolf Menzel, Rückenfigur (Radierung Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Inv...
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