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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1817, in the Hamburg Art Gallery, Germany.

Caspar David Friedrich

German painter
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Caspar David Friedrich (born September 5, 1774, Greifswald, Pomerania [now in Germany]ā€”died May 7, 1840, Dresden, Saxony) was one of the leading figures of the German Romantic movement. His vast, mysterious, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes proclaimed human helplessness against the forces of nature and did much to establish the idea of the sublime as a central concern of Romanticism. Friedrich studied from 1794 to 1798 at the Copenhagen Academy, one of the most progressive art...

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