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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Two Men by the Sea

🖼 Two Men by the Sea, 1817
Oil on canvas
51 × 66 cm
Berlin, Germany

Two solitary figures gaze toward a misty horizon, rendered in soft grays and blues with minimal detail. Friedrich's composition epitomizes Romantic introspection, using vast emptiness to explore human insignificance and spiritual longing before nature's sublime vastness.

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