Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime. Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea ... The stone is rough and cold; the evening wind feels chilly and sentimental. The air is salty, marine. Waves crash onto water and water ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think ... “If you were to meditate morning to evening,” he once said, “you would never comprehend or even fathom the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching ...

Dozens of works will be on view for the next two months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” exhibit.