The Sea of Ice

Caspar David Friedrich

1823

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hamburg-Mitte, Germany

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Description

painting by Caspar David Friedrich at the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Medium

oil paint

Dimensions

96.7 × 126.9 cm

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It depicts Friedrich's interpretation of an Arctic landscape, with a shipwreck half-buried in the ice. Its radical composition and subject matter were unusual for their time and the work was met with incomprehension.

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