Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important German painters, and his landscape works live large in the cultural consciousness in Germany and beyond. You have probably seen the ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea” (1822) is one of those paintings that stay with you your whole life. It has all the requisite ingredients and then some: surreal beauty ...

Caspar David Friedrich was the sixth child of Greifswald ... His work had begun to lose its prestige by the 1820s, as the Dusseldorf School of painting became fashionable in Germany.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is an entire epoch in a moment -- a single figure, anonymous and back to us so he’s every one of us, his thoughts his own, on top of a ...

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.