Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Year: 1818

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 94.8 × 74.8 cm

$2,800,000

A man stands on a rocky precipice, his back to the viewer, gazing out over a fog-shrouded landscape. This work has become the emblem of German Romanticism and the quintessential image of the solitary figure confronting the sublime in nature.

More by