Who painted “Two men contemplating the Moon”?

“Two men contemplating the Moon” was painted by Caspar David Friedrich in 1819. Where to see it: Dresden State Art Collections.

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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“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”, 1818
“The Monk by the Sea”, 1808
“The Sea of Ice”, 1823
“Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen”, 1818
“The Abbey in the Oakwood”, 1809
“Life stages”, 1834
“Woman at a Window”, 1822
“Altarpiece Tetschen”, 1807