Caspar David Friedrich was the most famous German romantic painter. (1774-1840)
Images of Friedrich usually shows lonely people contemplating the nature. The painter is coming up to the nature in the concentration, as the man who believes is confronted to the altar. Such experience requires the absolute solitude.
His work showed the spiritual nature of the landscape, confronting the power of the nature with the frailty of the man. He created romantic views of sea coasts, mountain snowy peaks, ruins, cemeteries oversaturated with the romantic symbolism.
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