Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is a painting by the German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich from 1818. It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer, gazing out over a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees and mountains pierce, stretching into the distance indefinitely.
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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich in 1818. It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
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The painting bounced between private collections before being acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg Art Hall) in 1970, where it has been on display since.
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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich in 1818.
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It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the
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