“Even in his emptiest landscapes, he will erect some lonesome memory marker: a ruin ... he wrote Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (1990), a poetic study of the artist that ...

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

Right next to it hangs the "Abbey in the Eichwald," a gloomy view of a church ruin with a funeral procession, framed by bare trees that rise into the winter sky. In 1810, Caspar David Friedrich ...