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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Fir Trees in the Snow

🖼 Fir Trees in the Snow, c. 1828
Oil on canvas
31 × 25 cm
Munich, Germany

Snow-laden firs loom vertically through mist, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic silhouettes and atmospheric depth. This iconic Romantic work captures the sublime tension between human insignificance and nature's spiritual transcendence, defining German Romantic landscape painting.

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