Caspar David Friedrich, View of Arkona with Rising Moon , 1805–6. The Met's Caspar David Friedrich show is more than three times as big as other exhibitions devoted to the artist at this museum.

“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, 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, "Monk by the Sea" (1808–10), oil on canvas; Nationalgalerie, ... Without saying it, you feel it that somebody has marched with their boots in the snow, ...

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.

Although Caspar David Friedrich is today thought of as a painter of oil on canvas, he returned continually throughout his life to paper and ink, making sepia-toned works of precise penwork that treat ...

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.

Published 14 May/9 July by Prestel, 352pp, 265 colour Illustrations, £45/$60 (hb) • Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age, by Markus Bertsch and Johannes Grave (eds).

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 ...