Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. If you were ...

Dozens of works will be on view for the next two months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” exhibit.

At the height of their meteoric careers, Frederic Lord Leighton, Hans Makart, Jan Matejko, Mihály von Munkácsy, Franz von Lenbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Franz von Stuck were celebrated as ...

IF TOURITSTS' SNAPSHOTS ARE ANY GAGUE, we remain under the spell of Caspar David Friedrich. The German painter is known for the motif of the Rückenfigur-a picture ofa figure posed with their back ...

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 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a superb new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Comprising some 75 ...

A new exhibit at the Met highlights the painting style of rückenfigur, but it's not just one German artist who's back on ...

Friedrich Gauermann was an Austrian landscape painter. Working in a realist style, Gauermann's work is both romantic and atmospheric, often featuring epic skies and melancholy cloud formations ...

The strange, satiric drawings of German artist Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), long a favorite of Outsider Art fans, seem to be making the cross-over into the mainstream -- again. Here’s ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea ... And the setting, as we’d expect from this quintessential Romanticist painter, is truly sublime — a golden moon above a wine-dark ...

Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of joint.