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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Neubrandenburg in Flames (Sunrise near Neubrandenburg)

🖼 Neubrandenburg in Flames (Sunrise near Neubrandenburg), c. 1835
Oil on canvas
72 × 101 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Fiery orange light breaks through murky clouds above a silhouetted town, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic Romantic style. The painting captures industrial destruction and natural sublime simultaneously, reflecting 19th-century anxieties about progress and humanity's place in nature.

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