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

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Caspar David Friedrich, “Moonrise over the Sea” (1822), oil on canvas; Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (photo bpk ...

You know the work of Caspar David ... Friedrich’s moody Two Men Contemplating the Moon inspired Waiting for Godot. The influence of the 1817 existential masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea ...

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

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 ...

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

And this is Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea." Contemporaries were fascinated ... Friedrich's brush and pencil faithfully captured each tree, cliff, mountain or unfurled sail, in his ...