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

Koerner, an art history professor at Harvard University, knows this all too well: Friedrich’s shadow stretches deep into his own past. While still in graduate school, he wrote Caspar David ...

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

“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 ...