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 German Romantic painter's landscapes have seemed corny in the past, but they have here been given new life.

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

It’s also a blueprint for how to think, and how to feel, in a changing environment. “He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some ...

As an art lover I always regret that I will never own a gallery of all the masterpieces ... Grab your favorite sweater and get ready to introspect like a Romantic because Wanderer above the Sea of Fog ...

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 ...

(New York, NY – February 3, 2025) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press preview for Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first major retrospective in the United States ...