Caspar David Friedrich was born on 5 September 1774 and died on 7 May 1840, in Germany in the town of Greifswald. In his early years, he studied under Johann Gottfried Quistorp at the University of Greifswald and was introduced to various other notable artists and ideas around nature and God. He attended the Copenhagen Academy from 1794 to 1798, after which he relocated to Dresden. He became popular for his landscape paintings that were deeply rooted in aspects of the sublime and spiritual.