Books & the Arts / The German artist’s landscape paintings tried to capture the sublimity of a world that has vanished. Quinn ...

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, considered among the most important of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, such as Wanderer Above the ...

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 ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘The Monk by the Sea’ is a haunting and minimal seascape that makes people pause and wonder what the thought inside the painter’s mind could be.

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 ...

You can experience “Moonrise by the Sea” in real life in “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” on view through May 11, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Caspar David Friedrich; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Karsten Moran for The New York Times Friedrich was born in 1774 in the Baltic port of Greifswald: part of Germany today, but then a holding of ...

In another anxious age of rising far-right nationalism, the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich offer a calming balm for the anxious German soul. Germany Berlin. IN THIS SECTION.