Caspar David Friedrich's most famous paintings
The top 3 according to 73 votes from people: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog · Chalk Cliffs on Rügen · The Sea of Ice. (Updated Nov 8, 2023.)
The best-known pictures by the great painter of German Romanticism, from the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog to The Great Enclosure.
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Top 17
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
c. 1818. The archetypal figure seen from behind. Hamburger Kunsthalle.
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Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
c. 1818. White cliffs above the Baltic. Winterthur.
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The Sea of Ice
1823-1824. Piled-up ice floes over a shipwreck. Hamburg.
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The Great Enclosure
c. 1832. A late masterpiece of the Elbe meadows near Dresden.
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The Stages of Life
c. 1834. Five ships and five people: a picture about ageing.
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The Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)
1807-1808. A landscape as an altarpiece, a scandal at the time.
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Moonrise over the Sea
1822. Three people on rocks watching ships come in.
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The Watzmann
1824-1825. A mountain he never saw himself.
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The Abbey in the Oakwood
1809-1810. The companion to The Monk: ruin, oaks and a funeral.
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The Chasseur in the Forest
1814. A lone French soldier in a snowy forest.
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Dolmen in the Snow
1807. A megalithic tomb beneath snowy oaks.
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Two Men Contemplating the Moon
1819-1820. Two friends and the moon; it inspired Beckett.
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On the Sailing Boat
c. 1818-1819. A couple at the bow, heading for a town.
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Woman at a Window
1822. His wife Caroline looks out of the studio window.
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Two Men by the Sea
1817. Two figures on the shore at dusk.
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The Monk by the Sea
1808-1810. A tiny figure facing the void. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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Woman before the Rising Sun
c. 1818. A woman opens her arms to the light. Essen.
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