Friedrich, Caspar David b. September 5, 1774 d. May 7, 1840 German Romantic Painter. He is considered by many art historians as one of the greatest landscape painter of all time. He was born in Griefswald, a small town in northeastern Germany along the Baltic coast. He studied art at the Academy in Copenhagen from 1794-98 and later settled in Dresden for the remainder of his quiet life. Friedrich began his work as an artist by doing topographical drawings in pencil before taking up oil painting in 1807. Some of his most well-known paintings are...[Read More] (Bio by: Tim Pettay) Trinitatisfriedhof, Dresden, Dresden, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany
Schroder-Devrient, Wilhelmine b. October 6, 1804 d. January 26, 1860 Opera Singer, Author. The creator of three of Richard Wagner's leading soprano roles, she also penned one of the most notoriously graphic depictions of sex in the entire literary canon. Raised in a theatrical family, she was a child actress and ballerina from a young age; training by her mother in both acting and singing endowed her with an expressive dramatic presentation that led to her being called "The Queen of Tears", but also gave her a defective vocal technique which, combined with her...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Trinitatisfriedhof, Dresden, Dresden, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany
b. September 5, 1774 d. May 7, 1840