# Caspar David Friedrich's most famous paintings

The best-known pictures by the great painter of German Romanticism, from the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog to The Great Enclosure.

- 73 votes · 17 items
- Nov 8, 2023 · Johanna Winkler
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## Top 17

1. **Wanderer above the Sea of Fog** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — c. 1818. The archetypal figure seen from behind. Hamburger Kunsthalle.
2. **Chalk Cliffs on Rügen** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — c. 1818. White cliffs above the Baltic. Winterthur.
3. **The Sea of Ice** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1823-1824. Piled-up ice floes over a shipwreck. Hamburg.
4. **The Great Enclosure** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — c. 1832. A late masterpiece of the Elbe meadows near Dresden.
5. **The Stages of Life** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — c. 1834. Five ships and five people: a picture about ageing.
6. **The Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1807-1808. A landscape as an altarpiece, a scandal at the time.
7. **Moonrise over the Sea** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1822. Three people on rocks watching ships come in.
8. **The Watzmann** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1824-1825. A mountain he never saw himself.
9. **The Abbey in the Oakwood** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1809-1810. The companion to The Monk: ruin, oaks and a funeral.
10. **The Chasseur in the Forest** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1814. A lone French soldier in a snowy forest.
11. **Dolmen in the Snow** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1807. A megalithic tomb beneath snowy oaks.
12. **Two Men Contemplating the Moon** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1819-1820. Two friends and the moon; it inspired Beckett.
13. **On the Sailing Boat** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — c. 1818-1819. A couple at the bow, heading for a town.
14. **Woman at a Window** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1822. His wife Caroline looks out of the studio window.
15. **Two Men by the Sea** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1817. Two figures on the shore at dusk.
16. **The Monk by the Sea** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1808-1810. A tiny figure facing the void. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
17. **Woman before the Rising Sun** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — c. 1818. A woman opens her arms to the light. Essen.

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