The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa 1817) is among the world’s most recognizable — please, let’s rest the tired word “iconic” — paintings. If the artist’s name or the title ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...

The artist Caspar David Friedrich does not just paint landscapes ... The grand scale of nature wields its power only over those who choose to stand on its shoulders. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog ...

But the god, in what could be construed as mercy or mockery, only summons a dense fog to literally obscure the carnage from ... Regardless of whether it ended up christening me as a modern Virgil ...

The result is that even the best brought-up children whose families live where they can, drift through their school years trying to rise above the sea of mediocrity in which they are forced to swim.