Lecture by Walter Baumgartner
The Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich was forgotten around 1900. The Norwegian Andreas Aubert triggered his comeback. Friedrich's most striking pictorial idea, "The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog", is considered an icon. Aubert's friend Theodor Kittelsen used the motif for a painting of the fairytale hero Askeladden in 1911 - mysteriously, "The Wanderer" has only been known since around 1950. The attempt to solve the riddle leads to an exciting series of "Wanderer" echoes in art and their various functions.
