Romanticism

What is the romanticism?

Romanticism was a cultural movement that emerged in England and Germany at the end of the 18th century and spread throughout Europe during the 19th century, until the 1850s. It expresses itself trough literature, painting, sculpture, music and politics.

The Man Contemplating a Sea of Mist is a painting by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. It is preserved and exhibited at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. It was composed from 1818 and is, along with La Mer de glace, one of the painter’s most famous works. In the foreground, a man stands on a rock high, his back turned to the viewer. He’s wearing a green frock coat