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.

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 ...

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

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich ... be seen in everything from the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to the television show Severance to countless memes. Friedrich is the painter par ...

But identity is hard to lose. The landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich was a key figure in German romanticism. He made the world romantic (as the German poet and polymath Novalis described the ...

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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.