Caspar David Friedrich is among those great painters the appreciation of whom has ironically suffered through the ...

“Two Men Contemplating the Moon” by Caspar David Friedrich. Photo by Matthew Wexler. Two men stand beside one another, an arm strategically placed on the other’s shoulder. What are they ...

The foremost representative of early German Romantic painting, Friedrich is thankfully receiving renewed attention at New ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich ... It wasn’t until two chaotic decades later that Napoleon would finally be sent packing. (Friedrich himself had to flee his city during the Battle of Dresden.) ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1825–30) (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Caspar David Friedrich, “Monk by the Sea” (1808–10) (photo Hakim ...

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Caspar David Friedrich show The Soul ... 1799 watercolor sketch Figures Contemplating the Moon, depicts two figures turning away from the large cross ...

Anselm Kiefer acquired La Ribaute—an old silk factory in Barjac, France—in 1992. The almost 100-acre estate comprises ...

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.

A new show opening in February at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774. In nature, the air feels different.