Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime. Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David ...

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 ...

Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings ... reproduced everywhere, his images still elude us. They deftly show that Friedrich's crisp, clear imagery was ...

But the artist who emerges from the Metropolitan Museum’s Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is a more nuanced and complex figure than his few famous pictures suggest. His early sketches ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the ...

Such images became emblematic in his art of ... as does the exhibition, on every level. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature Ms. Lewis, who taught art history for many years at Trinity ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea” (1822) is one of those paintings that stay with you your whole life. It has all the requisite ingredients and then some: surreal beauty ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is an entire epoch in a moment -- a single figure, anonymous and back to us so he’s every one of us, his thoughts his own, on top of a ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s life spanned an era of revolutionary ... with their Greek statue profile pics, would choose to place it. Moreover, the medieval imagery in the paintings is contemporary ...

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.