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Masterpieces Revisited: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

June 27, 2016

Caspar David Friedrich was a leading artist of German Romanticism. In 1818 he painted ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ which has over time become almost synonymous with the Romantic era.

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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer von Caspar David Friedrich
Image: picture alliance/dpa/Folkwang-Museum/Elke Walford

A masterpiece: Wanderer above the sea of fog