Neubrandenburg Burning

Neubrandenburg Burning
(Das brennende Neubrandenburg)
ArtistCaspar David Friedrich
Year1830–1835
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions72.2 cm × 101.3 cm (28.4 in × 39.9 in)
LocationHamburger Kunsthalle

Neubrandenburg Burning (German - Das brennende Neubrandenburg) is an 1830-1835 oil on canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich, now in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. It is also known as Sunrise at Neubrandenburg (Sonnenaufgang bei Neubrandenburg) or Sunset at Neubrandenburg (Sonnenuntergang bei Neubrandenburg). The artist's parents were both born in Neubrandenburg and he often painted it - another example is Neubrandenburg.


1820 map of Neubrandenburg von 1820 with the northern view
Carl Gustav Carus: View of Neubrandenburg, 1819
Caspar David Friedrich: Church Ruins in a Meadow, c. 1835


Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin
Caspar David Friedrich: Woman Before the Setting Sun, 1818
Caspar David Friedrich: Tetschen Altar, 1808


Views of Neubrandenburg
Caspar David Friedrich: Neubrandenburg, c. 1816
Caspar David Friedrich: Mountainous River Landscape, 1830–1835
Caspar David Friedrich: The Garden Bower, 1818
  • Caspar David Friedrich: Grasslands Near Greifswald, c. 1820
  • Caspar David Friedrich: Greifswald By Moonlight, 1817
  • Caspar David Friedrich: Hill with Trees Near Dresden, c. 1824
  • Caspar David Friedrich: On The Segler, 1818
  • Caspar David Friedrich: Memory image for Johann Emanuel Bremer, 1817
  • Caspar David Friedrich: Sisters on the Söller am Hafen, c. 1820
Karl Friedrich Schinkel Medieval City on a River, 1815
Carl Wilhelm Götzloff: Winter Landscape with a Gothic Church, 1821


The painting was not popular among the artist's contemporaries but in 1853 Ernst Boll, a German theologian and scholar of the natural sciences, attributed this to the difficulty of presenting the city as a panorama "in which everything is moving".

The work belongs to a group of Romantic paintings of burning Gothic buildings, also including JMW Turner's The Burning of the Houses of Parliament and The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, whilst the churches in front of dramatic clouds are also comparable with John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral.

  • JMW Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1835
  • JMW Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, 1835
  • John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral, 1834

Bibliography (in German)
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan, Karl Wilhelm Jähnig: Caspar David Friedrich. Gemälde, Druckgraphik und bildmäßige Zeichnungen. Prestel Verlag, München 1973, ISBN 3-7913-0053-9 (Werkverzeichnis)
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan: Caspar David Friedrich. Gefühl als Gesetz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 2008
  • Gerhard Eimer: Caspar David Friedrich und die Gotik. Analysen und Deutungsversuche. Aus den Stockholmer Vorlesungen. Baltische Studien 49, 1962/63
  • Christina Grummt: Caspar David Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen. Das gesamte Werk. 2 Bde., München 2011
  • Werner Hofmann (ed.): Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840. Ausstellung Hamburger Kunsthalle 14. Sept. bis 3. Nov. 1974. Kunst um 1800. S. 296 f.
  • Werner Hofmann: Caspar David Friedrich. Naturwirklichkeit und Kunstwahrheit. C.H. Beck Verlag, München 2000, ISBN 3-406-46475-0
  • Helmut R. Leppien: Caspar David Friedrich in der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Stuttgart 1993
  • Peter Rautmann: Caspar David Friedrich. Landschaft als Sinnbild entfalteter bürgerlicher Wirklichkeitsaneignung. Peter Lang Verlag, Bern 1979
  • Detlef Stapf: Caspar David Friedrichs verborgene Landschaften. Die Neubrandenburger Kontexte. Greifswald 2014, netzbasiert P-Book
  • Eckhard Unger: Untergang in Neubrandenburg. Deutung des Gemäldes von Caspar David Friedrich in Hamburg. In: Das Carolinum 26, 1960, S. 108–111

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