Art Print Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - 60 x 80 cm

Main works

The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), Monk by the Sea (1810), Abbey in an Oak Forest (1810), The Sea of Ice (1823-1824), Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818).

Artistic movements

German Romanticism

Inspiration, influence

Jens Juel and Nicolai Abildgaard (professors at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Denmark)
Goethe (literary and theoretical influence)

His contemporaries

Philip Otto Runge (German Romantic painter)
Carl Gustav Carus (painter and scientist)
David d'Angers (French sculptor)

To keep in mind

Caspar David Friedrich is one of the masters of German Romanticism, known for his landscapes that symbolize spirituality and the quest for the infinite. His works, imbued with melancholy, stage nature as a reflection of the human soul, prone to contemplation and meditation. Although his art was neglected after his death, he is now recognized as a pioneer in the expression of the sublime in painting.