Caspar David Friedrich
Speaker: Kevin N. Moll
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
Thursday, June 11, at 7:00pm
Donation: $10
Kevin N. Moll is an emeritus professor of Musicology at East Carolina University, where from 2002 to 2017 he served as director of the multi-disciplinary program in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Dr. Moll has taught undergraduate and graduate music history courses across all chronological eras of Western Music, as well as in American music and Jazz. In addition, he taught a two-semester liberal arts course sequence in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as a course in film history for ECU’s Honors College. He is currently teaching in an adjunct capacity at New England Conservatory and serves as executive director of the Still River Chamber Music Society. As a performer, Dr. Moll has been active for many years as double-bassist, viola da gambist, choral singer, and director of various early-music ensembles.
Caspar David Friedrich
Speaker: Kevin N. Moll
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
Thursday, June 11, at 7:00pm
Donation: $10
Kevin N. Moll is an emeritus professor of Musicology at East Carolina University, where from 2002 to 2017 he served as director of the multi-disciplinary program in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Dr. Moll has taught undergraduate and graduate music history courses across all chronological eras of Western Music, as well as in American music and Jazz. In addition, he taught a two-semester liberal arts course sequence in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as a course in film history for ECU’s Honors College. He is currently teaching in an adjunct capacity at New England Conservatory and serves as executive director of the Still River Chamber Music Society. As a performer, Dr. Moll has been active for many years as double-bassist, viola da gambist, choral singer, and director of various early-music ensembles.