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

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Friedrich once referred to “the darkness of the future”—this is the pessimism that dominates his art and his epoch. The 1808–10 painting Monk by the Sea, featured in its own alcove at the ...

The finest of the paintings, “Monk by the Sea” (1808-10), is a bravura display of moody affect achieved through the slimmest of means. Elsewhere, Friedrich proves an iffier artist, reliably meticulous ...

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

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 ...