Description

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich is a quintessential work of Romanticism, painted around 1818. In this composition, a solitary figure stands atop a rocky precipice, gazing out over a vast landscape obscured by a thick sea of fog. The wanderer is dressed in a dark green coat and a black hat, his back turned to the viewer, which invites us to share in his contemplation of the mysterious and ethereal scene before him.