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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich was the sixth child of Greifswald ... invented landscapes from his own imagination, such as "The Sea of Ice." The apocalyptic painting turns the frozen Elbe River into ...

The artist Caspar David Friedrich ... The jagged shards of ice, in The Sea of Ice rising like monolithic tombstones, convey the brutal force of nature, utterly indifferent to human struggle. Friedrich ...

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

Main Image: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (detail), ca. 1817. Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 × 29 1/2 in. (94.8 × 74.8 cm). Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent loan ...