It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German ...

“The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of many exhibitions dedicated to German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) on the 250th anniversary of his death.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the ...

Artist Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840 ... Behind it all lay a deep piety, a mystical communion with God, whom Friedrich saw as the original author of everything he painted – even if ...

“Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes,” which ... the first monograph on Friedrich was published in 1915, with the title, “God, Freedom, Fatherland.” That interpretation of the ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers ...