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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Oak in the Snow

🖼 Oak in the Snow, 1820s
Oil on canvas
44 × 34.5 cm
Cologne, Germany

Stark branches pierce white snow beneath a gray sky, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic melancholy palette. The solitary oak embodies Romantic ideals of nature's sublime power and human insignificance, reflecting early 19th-century German philosophy on mortality and spiritual transcendence.

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