Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature Feb. 8 to May 11, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Caspar David Friedrich, Morning Mist in the Mountains (1808). Photo by Ben Davis. Look at the vivid and unforgettable Morning Mist in the Mountains (1808), one of my favorites from this show.

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve finally reached the top of the mountain.

Caspar David Friedrich, View of Arkona with Rising Moon , 1805–6. The Met's Caspar David Friedrich show is more than three ...

(Public domain/via Wikimedia) Right: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817, oil on canvas. (Photo courtesy of the MET) Share 401 Comments Listen. By Brian T. Allen.

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

Caspar David Friedrich, “Castle Ruins at Teplitz” (1828), watercolor over pencil on wove paper; Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ...

Caspar David Friedrich arrives in New York at a time when the environment is on everyone’s agendas. (Well, almost everyone’s.) Nature as a fount of wisdom, spiritual or otherwise, ...

One of Georg Friedrich Kersting’s portraits of the artist, 1811’s Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, gives us Friedrich alone, seated at an easel, rendering a waterfall on the canvas.

In The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time (Polity, $25/£20, 220 pages), the art historian Florian Illies sets out to capture this shifting picture.