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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: The Tree of Crows

🖼 The Tree of Crows, c. 1822
Oil on canvas
59 × 73 cm
Paris, France

Gnarled branches twist against pale sky while crows scatter in dark flight, their forms stark against luminous clouds. Friedrich's Romantic vision transforms nature into psychological landscape, where barren trees and circling birds evoke melancholy and mortality central to early nineteenth-century German art.

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