Caspar David Friedrich
c. 1818
Oil on canvas
Romanticism
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Considered a hallmark of the Romantic era, the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog portrays a traveller with his back turned to the viewer, facing a far-reaching landscape of mountaintops emerging from the thick fog. Friedrich's depiction of nature, which is very characteristic of Romantic painting, is meant to evoke the sublime and reflect on humanity's complex relation with it.
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