Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818
The story
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, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Date
- 1818
- Collection
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 67 × 74.8 cm
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