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Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich, who lived from 1774 to 1840, is the best-known painter of German Romanticism. His landscapes often show small human figures, seen from behind, facing vast skies, seas, mountains or ruins, and they invite reflection on nature, faith and the individual's place in the world. Paintings such as Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, have become emblems of the Romantic era. Der Mönch am Meer, The Monk by the Sea, painted between 1808 and 1810, hangs in the Alte Nationalgalerie on Berlin's Museum Island. It shows a lone figure on a strip of beach before a dark sea and an immense sky. Examinations of the canvas have shown that Friedrich originally painted ships on the water and later removed them. When the picture was first exhibited, the writer Heinrich von Kleist published a famous response, describing the sensation as if one's eyelids had been cut away. The 250th anniversary of Friedrich's birth in 2024 brought major exhibitions in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden that drew record crowds. Museum Island, a group of five museums in the center of Berlin, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.