Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich

1818 · Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

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 on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce…

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