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

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature Feb. 8 to May 11, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Though Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog may be a familiar image, the painting has never found its way over the Atlantic until now.

One of Georg Friedrich Kersting’s portraits of the artist, 1811’s Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, gives us Friedrich alone, seated at an easel, rendering a waterfall on the canvas.

Caspar David Friedrich, Morning Mist in the Mountains (1808). Photo by Ben Davis. Look at the vivid and unforgettable Morning Mist in the Mountains (1808), one of my favorites from this show.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature. The Met Fifth Avenue, through May 11. Ms. Lewis, who taught art history for many years at Trinity College, writes about art for the Journal and other ...

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 mountain.

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.

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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Castle Ruins at Teplitz” (1828), watercolor over pencil on wove paper; Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ...

Yet things change: Friedrich has since been adopted as a poster boy by the environmentally minded. To quote historian and scholar Stephanie O’Rourke, Friedrich’s vision is of “a natural world that has ...