Though Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog may be a familiar image, the painting has never found its way over the Atlantic until now.

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11.

“Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (c. 1825-30), by Caspar David Friedrich (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) I went to the Met to take in the landscapes. I didn’t expect to find an old friend.

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.

My eyes played tricks on me in the dark. It was 2 a.m. on the edge of a bay in Greenland, and our tented camp appeared like a black-and-white photograph in the light of my headlamp. I watched as ...

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 ...

You can experience “Moonrise by the Sea” in real life in “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” on view through May 11, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

In The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time (Polity, $25/£20, 220 pages), the art historian Florian Illies sets out to capture this shifting picture.

An unmissable show at the Met proves romanticism isn’t dead Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, (ca. 1817). Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen. Photo: Elke Walford.

Left: Georg Friedrich Kersting, Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, 1811, oil on canvas. (Public domain/via Wikimedia) Right: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817, oil ...

The Metropolitan Museum’s new exhibition of Caspar David Friedrich, the first major U.S. showcase of the German Romantic, offers a profound view of man and nature, Jason Farago writes.