Caspar David Friedrich!!

Caspar D. Friedrich was born in Greifswald, Hither Pomerania. Unfortunatly his mother died when he was only 7, his sister succumbed to Typhus fever and his brother drowned in a frozen lake, while trying to save Friedrich. In 1790 he studied art with Johann G. Quistorp at the University of Greifswald. He usually painted with India ink (black ink also known as Chinese ink), watercolor and sepia ink, and after the age of 30 he got into oil painting. He usually drew landscapes of northern Germany. He also would incporporate crosses into his paintings. Then in 1835 he got a stroke which caused him limd paralysis and after that he wasn never able to paint again. :(