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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog  wikidata:Q311243 reasonator:Q311243
Artist
Caspar David Friedrich  (1774–1840)  wikidata:Q104884 q:en:Caspar David Friedrich
 
Caspar David Friedrich
Alternative names
German: Caspar David Friedrich
Description German painter, drawer and etcher
Date of birth/death 5 September 1774 Edit this at Wikidata 7 May 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Greifswald Dresden
Work period Romanticism
Work location
Berlin, Greifswald, Rügen, Dresden (1798)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q104884
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Title
Deutsch: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
English: The hiker above the sea of fog
Español: El caminante sobre el mar de niebla
Français : Le voyageur au-dessus de la mer de nuages
Frysk: De kuierder boppe de dize
Italiano: Il viandante sul mare di nebbia
Македонски: „Талкач над морето од магла“
Português: Caminhante Sobre o Mar de Névoa
Türkçe: Bulutların Üzerinde Yolculuk
Հայերեն: Ճամփորդը ծով մշուշի առջև
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The hiker stands as a back figure in the center of the composition. He looks down on an almost impenetrable sea of ​​fog in the midst of a rocky landscape - a metaphor for life as an ominous journey into the unknown.
Date circa 1817
date QS:P571,+1817-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 98 cm (38.5 in); width: 74 cm (29.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,98U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74U174728
institution QS:P195,Q169542
Accession number
5161
Place of creation Germany Edit this at Wikidata
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Notes The artist himself undertook a hike in the Saxon Switzerland and presumably realized the impression of nature in the picture.
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Source/Photographer https://www.tiqets.com/ja/hamburg-attractions-c64886/tickets-for-hamburger-kunsthalle-skip-the-line-p976728/

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