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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: The Watzmann

🖼 The Watzmann, 1824-25
Oil on canvas
135 × 170 cm
Berlin, Germany

Towering peaks emerge from misty valleys, rendered in cool grays and deep shadows with meticulous romantic technique. Friedrich's sublime landscape expresses German idealism and spiritual longing, establishing the mountain as a metaphor for the infinite and unknowable.

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