
Exhibition· Chemnitz
Mediale Ausstellung "CDFriedrich inspiriert"
"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" is the most famous painting of German Romanticism. Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) created the iconic work around 1817, based on sketches from Saxon Switzerland. The introverted master, who spent most of his life in Dresden, loved the wildly romantic rock landscape nearby, repeatedly wandering through nature seeking solitude and drawing rocks, mountains, trees an