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 ...

The German Romantic painter's landscapes have seemed corny in the past, but they have here been given new life.

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 ...

Joseph Leo Koerner offers this insight near the beginning of “Moment, Memory, Monument,” his catalog essay for the exhibition Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

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 ...

(New York, NY – February 3, 2025) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press preview for Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first major retrospective in the United States ...

You 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 albums, book covers ...