The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, ...

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

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 ...

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

And this is Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea." Contemporaries were fascinated ... Friedrich's brush and pencil faithfully captured each tree, cliff, mountain or unfurled sail, in his ...