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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Dolmen in the Snow

🖼 Dolmen in the Snow, 1807
Oil on canvas
61.5 × 80 cm
Berlin, Germany

Stark dolmen emerges from white snow under pale sky, rendered in Friedrich's austere palette and precise brushwork. This megalithic monument symbolizes humanity's insignificance against nature and time, exemplifying Romantic philosophy through the artist's contemplative landscape tradition.

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