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