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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

But identity is hard to lose. The landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich was a key figure in German romanticism. He made the world romantic (as the German poet and polymath Novalis described the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The debonair in “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817), Friedrich’s most recognizable painting, stands confidently on a mountaintop, presumably experiencing a transcendental moment as ...

The clay backsides of a green humanoid and orange pony are all the viewer sees of children’s television characters Gumby and ...