Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images) The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan ...

“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner. Caspar David ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers, and ...

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important German painters, and his landscape works live large in the cultural consciousness in Germany and beyond. You have probably seen the ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural world with bleak yet awe-inspiring beauty. Mary Tompkins Lewis ...

In the early 19th century Friedrich initiated a new movement in art, making the landscape genre Kunst für eine neue Zeit, “Art for a new era.” The visitor to the exhibition comes into contact with the ...

Caspar David Friedrich, "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Are we having a Romantic moment? As reactionary winds lash about the ...

A solitary crucifix rises out of a cleft of rock. Fir trees take the place of the two thieves traditionally positioned on either side. The tip of the cross and the tops of the trees touch the sky, a ...

A Visit to Mount Rushmore, More Than a Shrine of Democracy America Has a Gratitude Crisis Grasping for Greatness Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is an entire epoch in a moment - ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Smee NEW ...