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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Evening Landscape with Two Men

🖼 Evening Landscape with Two Men, 1830-35
Oil on canvas
25 × 31 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Golden light fades behind silhouetted figures standing before vast, melancholic terrain rendered in Friedrich's characteristic romantic style. The composition captures sublime isolation and spiritual yearning central to German Romanticism's exploration of humanity's insignificance within nature.

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