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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Neubrandenburg

🖼 Neubrandenburg, c. 1817
Oil on canvas
91 × 72 cm
Greifswald, Germany

Soft mist envelops Gothic ruins under pale sky, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic Romantic technique of atmospheric perspective. The painting epitomizes early 19th-century German Romanticism's obsession with medieval decay and sublime melancholy as expressions of national identity and spiritual yearning.

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E. H. Gombrich
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