Garmisch presents a mountainous landscape shrouded in mist and cloud, with a dark evergreen tree silhouetted in the foreground. The composition emphasizes atmospheric obscurity, with the snow capped peaks rendered as ghostly forms emerging from fog. Richter's characteristic photo painting technique translates photographic source material into oil on canvas, employing a muted palette of grays, whites, and blacks to capture the ephemeral qualities of weather and visibility. The work exemplifies his engagement with landscape as both a subject of natural observation and a meditation on representation itself, where photographic documentation becomes abstracted through painterly intervention.