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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.

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

A masterpiece: Wanderer above the sea of fog

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