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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: The Grosse Gehege near Dresden

🖼 The Grosse Gehege near Dresden, c. 1832
Oil on canvas
73.5 × 102.5 cm
Berlin, Germany

Misty woodland emerges through soft, diffused light, where silhouetted figures stand before towering trees in romantic contemplation. Friedrich's atmospheric landscape epitomizes German Romanticism's spiritual reverence for nature and the sublime power of wilderness over human presence.

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