Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) was the greatest painter of the German Romantic movement and one of the most important landscape painters in Western art. Born in Greifswald on the Baltic coast, his paintings of misty mountains, Gothic ruins, moonlit seas, and solitary figures contemplating vast landscapes became defining images of Romanticism. His masterwork "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" remains one of the most iconic paintings in art history.

The Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum in Greifswald is located in his birth house and offers exhibitions, workshops, and educational programmes about the Romantic painter.