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 ...

“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.

The end of winter in New York sometimes feels rife with melancholy. A few spring days taunt with the warmth and new life to ...

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 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a ...

The age of Romanticism is long gone ... Found in the Collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Artist Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840). Picture: Getty Images Easter morning,1833.