View of Schmiedebergerkamm

View of Schmiedebergerkamm, painted around 1837 and now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, is among Friedrich's final paintings, depicting the Silesian mountain ridge with the spare, haunted quality of his post-stroke work. By 1837 Friedrich was severely limited by the effects of his 1835 stroke, and his late paintings have a melancholy intensity that reflects both physical decline and artistic distillation. The Pushkin Museum's Friedrich holdings document the historical cultural connections between Germany and Russia, intensified during the nineteenth century through aristocratic collecting and the movement of artists and artworks between the two nations.

The mountain ridge extends across the horizontal format with Friedrich's characteristic layered recession. The late work shows a somewhat simplified handling compared to his peak years, though the atmospheric sensitivity remains.