Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I met you in 1995


and when I find you again you always take my breath away and take me to somewhere I want to go. So happy to see you and share you.

The Abbey in the Oakwood
(Abtei im Eichwald)
Caspar David Friedrich, 1809–10
Oil on canvas
110 × 171 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

2 comments:

wrenna said...

This image is likely the inspiration for the opening sequence of the movie "Passchendaele" (a bit of Canadian history via heavy duty symbolism - it begins with the protagonist routing a German sniper's nest in the sanctuary of a ruined church (a true story related by the actor/writer/producer's real life grandfather) and ends with a boy named David hung up on a cross in the German trenches and pulled back to Canadian trenches by the protagonist who has vowed to protect the boy, whose sister he is in love with, and then dies.)

Another true story: my middle names are Elisabeth Maria, as per Friedrich's dead sisters (thank you Wikipedia) and my German great-grandmothers. I am unlikely to forget this now... thank you.

Megan Chapman said...

Very interesting Wrenna.
I will have to check out "Passchendaele"

And then your middle names too! What strange connections are operating in this world..