“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.

But identity is hard to lose. The landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich was a key figure in German romanticism. He made the world romantic (as the German poet and polymath Novalis described the ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Are we having a Romantic moment? As reactionary winds lash ...

It happened to Rembrandt, and it happened to Caspar David Friedrich. Towards the end of his career, Germany’s greatest painter of the Romantic era found he had become unfashionable. Too gloomy, too ...

But identity is hard to lose. The landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich was a key figure in German romanticism. He made the world romantic (as the German poet and polymath Novalis described the ...

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will ... Friedrich brings us back to Romanticism’s other great subject — the self. For the Romantics, our subjective experience ...