Affiche Sea of Ice - Masterpiece Painting by Friedrich

"The Sea of Ice" (German: "Das Eismeer") is an oil painting by the German Romanticist painter Caspar David Friedrich, created in 1824. It is 126.9 × 96.7 cm (50 × 38.1 in) and is in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. "The Sea of Ice" depicts the shipwreck of an early North Pole Expedition ship. Time Magazine (October 1974), in its article "the Awestruck Witness," said the following:"the image he(Friedrich) produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference." Caspar David Friedrich was the most important German artist of the 19th century. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature.