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Who painted “Woman in Front of the Setting Sun”?

“Woman in Front of the Setting Sun” was painted by Caspar David Friedrich in 1818. Where to see it: Museum Folkwang.

Woman in Front of the Setting Sun — Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism

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Caspar David Friedrich: solitary figures seen from behind, gazing at mist, sea or mountains; still, silent landscapes, Gothic ruins and moonlight.

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Wikipedia

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