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237 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2023




It's maddening: the two paintings that are considered Caspar David Friedrich's major works today, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen and The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, were still completely unknown a hundred years after their creation in his Dresden studio. No one had seen them, no one had written a word describing them. It is a mystery.
The writer Ralf Rothmann, in his recent book of many clouds, Theorie des Regens - 'Theory of rain' - summarized the relation between Goethe and Friedrich, or between Classicism and Romanticism, in the shortest possible mathematical form:
Classicism: A + B = C
Romanticism: A + B = ♾️
