A man in a dark coat stands on a rocky summit, his back to us, looking out over a sea of fog pierced by distant peaks. The Rückenfigur invites us to stand in his place. Self-mastery, the sublime, or the loneliness of the modern self.
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The landscape is a composite of real sites in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains that Friedrich sketched separately.
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