“Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” a major retrospective of the German romantic at the Met, speaks of a world out of joint.

It’s a compelling classic: In Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer Above the Fog (1818), a lone man on a rock gazes out over range of mountains half-blanketed in fog, his back to the viewer ...

The great Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich gushed masterpieces. One of the few in America is at the Met. When I view this image on my laptop and flip the screen back a few degrees, I see ...

When Caspar David Friedrich died in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is reaching new heights. When Caspar David Friedrich died in ...

The Met's Caspar David Friedrich show is more than three times as big as other exhibitions devoted to the artist at this museum. Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea , 1808–10. Caspar David ...

Zachary Fine on the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings, and on Germany’s celebrations for the artist’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday. Skip to main content.

In early 1818, the painter Caspar David Friedrich, then 43 years old, married Christiane Caroline Bommer, a Dresden dyer’s daughter nearly 20 years his junior. A few months later the newlyweds ...