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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Dark-frocked solitary man stands at the top of a rocky crag with a walking staff, his back to the viewer, gazing out at a vast sea of drifting mist through which distant mountain peaks rise into pale sky — Romantic portrait of the wanderer.
'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' by Caspar David Friedrich (c. 1818, Hamburger Kunsthalle)
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich (Wikipedia)
Work
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer) (1818)
Medium
Oil Painting
Source
Wikimedia Commons
License
Public Domain — Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) — worldwide public domain since 1911 (70+ years post mortem auctoris). US public domain via pre-1928 publication cliff. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Extended provenance
First edition
1818 (first-edition plate)
License verified
2026-04-23

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