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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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