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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818 · Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

The story

A young man in dark coat stands on a rocky pinnacle with his back to us, surveying an endless ocean of mist with mountain peaks rising through. Painted around 1818 — Friedrich's defining image of romantic solitude.

Artist
Caspar David Friedrich
Year
1818
Period
Romantic
Where it lives
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Rights
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