Dec 30, 2006

More did you know


This is one of my favorite paintings for several reasons:

- it's by Caspar David Friedrich who is a German painter (I'm half German)
-his middle name is David; my first name is David

-the title of the painting is "Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog [some say Mist](1817)

-my name, Wade, means "wanderer"

-finally, it shows a hiker in the mountains, overlooking a cloud-filled valley, and I really enjoy hiking.

2 comments:

Tam said...

u know, the guy has your build as well. haha maybe there was a guy who look just like you and had your name in 1817.

M. Wiebe said...

Not my favorite Caspar David Friedrich, but nice to see him mentioned by an intelligent and dicerning individual. I much prefer his slightly dark landscapes, specifically "Monastery cemetery in the snow". Interestingly he rarely painted people and of those almost never painted their faces.