The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich ... waters towards looming clouds. Friedrich’s subject is the ceaseless struggle against the unfathomable. The poet Heinrich von Kleist was stunned ...

The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840 ... The darkened, stilled poetry that surrounds such solitary images, however, does not capture ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.