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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich, "Monk by the Sea" (1808–10), oil on canvas; ... It was so much the quintessence of Romanticism, the feeling of what subjectivity looks like in a painted form.

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie is presenting a major exhibition on the work of the most important painter of German ...