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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon

🖼 Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, c. 1824
Oil on canvas
34 × 44 cm
Berlin, Germany

Silhouetted figures gaze toward a luminous moon rising over misty mountains, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic romantic technique of layered atmospheric depth. This intimate scene epitomizes German Romanticism's spiritual longing, where nature becomes a mirror for human emotion and transcendence.

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