Which painter created 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog'?

Which painter created “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”? Caspar David Friedrich created it in 1818.

The German Romanticist painted a solitary man standing on a rocky peak, seen from behind as he looks across ridges and mountains hidden by mist. This rear-facing figure is called a Rückenfigur, a device Friedrich used to place viewers inside a scene of contemplation.

The fog is more than weather: it evokes the Romantic idea of the sublime, in which nature appears beautiful, mysterious, and overwhelming. The painting’s original German title is Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, and it is held by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg.

A common mix-up is attributing the work to a British Romantic landscape painter such as J.M.W. Turner or John Constable. Turner also explored atmosphere and the sublime, but Friedrich created this particular image, which became one of the best-known symbols of German Romanticism.