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Friedrich winter sophisticated creations feature alongside dishesThe beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous paintings Monk by the Sea and The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. For a long time the importance and influence of this great Romantic painter were underestimated. When he died, Friedrich had already been forgotten by his contemporaries and was only