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3 unusual facts about ''Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog


Karl Friedrich Schinkel

When he saw Caspar David Friedrich's painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog at the 1810 Berlin art exhibition he decided that he would never reach such mastery of painting and turned to architecture.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

In 2008, the painting was used as inspiration for the promotional image of David Tennant as Hamlet at the RSC.

The mountain in the background to the left could be either the Rosenberg or the Kaltenberg.



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