Who painted “Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen”?

“Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen” was painted by Caspar David Friedrich in 1818. Where to see it: Kunst Museum Winterthur | Reinhart am Stadtgarten.

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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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“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”, 1818
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“The Abbey in the Oakwood”, 1809
“Life stages”, 1834
“Woman at a Window”, 1822
“Altarpiece Tetschen”, 1807
“Solitary Tree”, 1822