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Wanderer in the Storm

1835
Not on view
The figure of a wanderer in an untamed natural setting personified restless yearning for the German Romantics. Man’s loneliness and nature’s transience, themes clearly stated in this picture, find direct parallels in the works of the painter Caspar David Friedrich and the composer Franz Schubert, notably his song cycle Die Winterreise, or Winter Journey (1827).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wanderer in the Storm
  • Artist: Julius von Leypold (German, Dresden 1806–1874 Niederlößnitz)
  • Date: 1835
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 16 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (42.5 x 56.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 2008
  • Object Number: 2008.7
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Winter View of the Courtyard of a Medieval Castle in Ruins, Julius von Leypold German, Graphite, brush and gray ink, watercolor
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Parochialstrasse in Berlin, Eduard Gaertner German, Oil on canvas
Parochialstrasse in Berlin
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Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin, Carl Gustav Carus German, Oil on canvas
Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin
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Two Men Contemplating the Moon
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