This painting, ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ (1818) 94.8 × 74.8 cm, is the best example of the artist’s work. Art historian, John Lewis Gaddis, writes in his book, The Landscape of ...

“Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” the wistful rear ... feel has primacy over what you see. Shrouded in fog or illuminated by sunbeams, landscape for Friedrich was always finally a journey ...

The German artist, born 250 years ago, and his most famous painting The Wanderer above ... landscape that is spread out before him. Poised upon a rocky precipice, the Wanderer gazes down into a ...