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View of the Baltic Sea by Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich · 1820

View of the Baltic Sea

The story

A horizontal stretch of grey water meeting paler sky, the coastline almost dissolving into the air. Friedrich strips the Baltic coast down to its bare emotional minimum, treating distance itself as the real subject.

Artist
Caspar David Friedrich
Year
1820
Period
Romantic
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