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.

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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

Travelers may, too, identify with Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, which features approximately 75 of Friedrich's works including the famed Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. Stand as that ...