Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

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Painting · c. 1818 · Dresden · Europe

A back-turned figure before boundless nature, the emblem of Romantic solitude

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Author: Caspar David Friedrich
Style: Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past
Century: 19th century

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