Two Men by the Sea
1817
Active from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, this German pai…
The backs of two men gazing quietly at the horizon on a seashore where the twilight glow faintly lingers.
A serene and mysterious landscape painting, typical of Romanticism, depicting the smallness of humans standing before the vast sea and sky.
But in fact, the clothes they are wearing conceal the painter's 'quiet resistance' to the society of his time.
Germany in 1817, when this painting was created, was a time when the Napoleonic Wars had ended, and the suppression of people seeking freedom and democracy was growing stronger day by day.
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