Monk in the Snow

The painting Monk in the Snow is a painting from 1808 by Caspar David Friedrich. It is part of the collection of the Glaspalast, and its size is 1.06 m × 0.73 m.

The painting depicts a lone monk, a small figure dwarfed by the scale of the scene, walking through a snowy graveyard towards the ruins of a Gothic church. The trees are bare, their branches heavy with snow, and the sky is a cold, gray expanse. The only hint of life is the monk himself, a tiny figure dwarfed by the vastness of the landscape. The overall impression is one of solitude, contemplation, and the passage of time.