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 Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

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

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 ...

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

(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 ...

“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner.

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