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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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