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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight

🖼 Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight, 1825-30
Oil on canvas
77 × 97 cm
Berlin, Germany

Moonlight illuminates a desolate shipwreck scattered across a rocky shore, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic misty romanticism with silhouetted figures contemplating the wreckage. This haunting seascape epitomizes German Romanticism's fascination with human insignificance amid nature's sublime, melancholic power.

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