Caspar David Friedrich Der Watzmann

Der Watzmann by Caspar David Friedrich in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin

Many of Friedrich’s later paintings in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin show how his style developed. Note “Der Watzmann,” the Alpine peak at Berchtesgaden. Friedrich never traveled south of the Harz and based the painting on the works of his pupils.

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