Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm, painted by Caspar David Friedrich around 1818.
A lone man, seen from behind and standing on a rocky summit, looks out
over a sea of fog that covers the mountain landscape below him. It is the
best known example of the “Rückenfigur” (the figure seen from behind)
that Friedrich used again and again: someone whose face you never see,
looking at the same horizon you are. It is in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
