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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1818
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Friedrich's colour is weather — slate sky, frost pine, and the cool back of a figure who is the only witness.

Caspar David Friedrich

Painter · Romanticism · 1774–1840

German Romantic whose wanderers stood before fog seas and moonlit ruins in slate blue, frost grey, and one pinprick of warm lamp.

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The Works
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1818
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
c. 1818
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The Sea of Ice, 1823–1824
The Sea of Ice
1823–1824
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Two Men by the Sea, 1817
Two Men by the Sea
1817
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The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1809–1810
The Abbey in the Oakwood
1809–1810
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Cross in the Mountains, 1807–1808
Cross in the Mountains
1807–1808
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The Monk by the Sea, 1808–1810
The Monk by the Sea
1808–1810
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Curatorial Note

Friedrich's colour is weather — slate sky, frost pine, and the cool back of a figure who is the only witness.

German Romantic whose wanderers stood before fog seas and moonlit ruins in slate blue, frost grey, and one pinprick of warm lamp.

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