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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: The Oaktree in the Snow

🖼 The Oaktree in the Snow, 1829
Oil on canvas
71 × 48 cm
Berlin, Germany

Skeletal oak branches pierce white snow under pale winter sky, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic romantic melancholy. The solitary tree embodies German Romantic ideals of nature's sublime power and human isolation within vast landscapes.

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