Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog shows a lone figure standing on a rocky precipice, gazing over a vast expanse of fog and distant mountains. The celebrated Romantic painting evokes solitude, introspection, and the sublime power of nature. Friedrich was a leading German Romantic painter known for his symbolic landscapes.

The artwork’s provenance after its creation is unknown. By 1939, it was on display in the gallery of Wilhelm August Luz in Berlin. In 1970, the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany, acquired the painting, and it has remained there ever since.