Caspar David Friedrich said that “nature is too sublime for the multitude to grasp” and supported his idea by painting these wild, powerful landscapes that make nature entirely impossible to grasp. Just looking at dingy pictures of his work usually sends chills down my spine, I cannot imagine what kind of effect the original paintings would produce.
He was a German, devout protestant, Romantic painter and this is his, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 1818.
