"We urge the artist [Friedrich] to undertake serious study of antiquity and of nature as the ancients saw it."

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MysticsAcademics from GermanyLutheransPainters from Germany
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Runge is reacting on the sepia 'Pilgrimage at Sunset' which Friedrich sent in for the [neoclassical] exhibition: 'The life of Hercules', 1805 in Weimar, Germany