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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Meadows near Greifswald

🖼 Meadows near Greifswald, c. 1822
Oil on canvas
34.5 × 48.3 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Soft atmospheric light bathes flat meadows under expansive sky, with distant church spire anchoring the composition. Friedrich's romantic landscape elevates humble countryside into spiritual contemplation, establishing nature as gateway to the transcendent—defining early 19th-century German idealism.

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