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 ...

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 ...

And this is Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea." Contemporaries were fascinated. It seemed "as if one's eyelids had been cut away," as Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) summarized.

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Caspar David Friedrich, “Moonrise over the Sea” (1822), oil on canvas; Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (photo bpk ...

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Friedrich often infused his landscapes with mystery and ... There is wonder here, but also a subtle reminder of the abyss beneath our feet. In the Monk by the Sea, you are not just looking at a person ...