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 ...

What are they up to? Caspar David Friedrich, “Castle Ruins at Teplitz” (1828), watercolor over pencil on wove paper; Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (photo ...

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

On the heels of major exhibitions across Germany in honor of his 250th birthday, Caspar David ... ruins, are not those of Neubrandenburg but of the castle ruins of Landskron, near Altentreptow, which ...

The artist Caspar David Friedrich ... of existence itself. Friedrich often infused his landscapes with mystery and melancholy, and The Great Enclosure near Dresden is no exception. The wide expanse of ...

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

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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 ...