Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1817) is perhaps the most famous single image associated with the Romantic sublime; taking its impetus from this loan from the Hamburger Kunsthalle, this exhibition examines the development of the wanderer as a subject in 19th-century painting, in Germany and beyond. The exhibition, arguing that the figure of the wanderer came to represent a new sense of modernity in the period, includes painters from Carl Blechen and Karl Friedrich Schinkel to Courbet, Gauguin and Hodler. Find out more about the ‘Wanderlust’ exhibition from the Alte Nationalgalerie’s website.
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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1817), Caspar David Friedrich. Photo: Elke Walford;© SHK/Hamburger Kunsthalle
Felsentor (1818), Karl Friedrich Shinkel. Photo: Jörg P. Anders; © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet (1854), Gustave Courbet. Photo: Frédéric Jaulmes; © Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée
Path Leading Through Long Grass (1876), Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Photo: Patrice Schmidt; © Musée d‘Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
Mountaineer (1912), Jens Ferdinand Willumsen. © Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen
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