The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...
Caspar David ... Friedrich (1774-1840) was one of 10 children born to a father who made soap and candles, and a mother who died young: Sophia Dorothea passed away when Caspar was all of 7 years old.
Back in the German Romantic period of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, Caspar David Friedrich was your rückenfigur go-to. In his most famous work, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), a ...
Y ou know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal a ...