Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich 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 subjec
Portrait by Gerhard von Kügelgen, c. 1810–1820
Old woman with hourglass and Bible (Portrait of Mother Heiden), c. 1801–1802
Self-portrait (1800), chalk
Landscape with Pavilion (1797). This early work shows typical themes: ragged landscape, closed gate, building of uncertain purpose.
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich in 1818. It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out
Caspar David Friedrich
…only looking out for the mystic ... They did not see Friedrich's faithful and conscientious study of nature in everything he represented". Later life Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), Kunsthalle Hamburg Friedrich's reputation steadily declined over the final fifteen years of his life. As the ideals of early Romanticism passed…
Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog