# Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

- By: Caspar David Friedrich
- Date: 1818
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: https://www.tiqets.com/ja/hamburg-attractions-c64886/tickets-for-hamburger-kunsthalle-skip-the-line-p976728/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog.jpeg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog.jpeg/1920px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog.jpeg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The hiker stands as a back figure in the center of the composition. He looks down on an almost impenetrable sea of fog in the midst of a rocky landscape - a metaphor for life as an ominous journey into the unknown.