Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810 ... that Friedrich debuted in 1808 in his Dresden studio, surrounded theatrically by black cloth and illuminated by low light.

But the artist who emerges from the Metropolitan Museum’s Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is a more nuanced and complex figure than his few famous pictures suggest. His early sketches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another is that he’s viewing with horror a dark force in the far horizon, just decades away, coming to sweep his homeland and drive its people out of their humanity. Caspar David Friedrich ...

we can find solace — anytime from anywhere — in his conception of a breathtaking moonrise. You can experience “Moonrise by the Sea” in real life in “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of ...

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.

Caspar David Friedrich uses his darkest tones in the foreground of The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818).