An unmissable show at the Met proves romanticism isn’t dead. Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810). Photo: Andres Kilger. Courtesy of ...

The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to think, and how to feel, in a changing environment. “Monk by the ...

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 ...

New York. The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a superb new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

An icon of Romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich resonates with audiences for his mystic landscapes that exalt nature, yet the painter’s legacy has been bumpy. Friedrich died in 1840 in Dresden ...

When Caspar David Friedrich died in 1840, ... his reputation was tarnished by association with the Nazis — Hitler loved German Romantic painting, and Friedrich was one of his favorite artists.

This is the scene that the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich lets us enter into in his iconic 1818 oil masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Because the wanderer’s back is ...

Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime. by Hakim Bishara March 10, 2025 March 27, 2025 Subscribe to our newsletter ...