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, 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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