Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa 1817) is among the world’s most recognizable — please, let’s rest the tired word “iconic” — paintings. If the artist’s name or the title ...

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. Tired ...

The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a superb new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Comprising some 75 ...

A solitary crucifix rises out of a cleft of rock. Fir trees take the place of the two thieves traditionally positioned on either side. The tip of the cross and the tops of the trees touch the sky, a ...

It’s a compelling classic: In Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer Above the Fog (1818), a lone man on a rock gazes out over range of mountains half-blanketed in fog, his back to the viewer. His hair ...

Caspar David Friedrich, "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Are we having a Romantic moment? As reactionary winds lash about the ...

New Year’s Wants, with a Nod to William Blake Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is an entire epoch in a moment -- a single figure, anonymous and back to us so he’s every one of us ...

Caspar David Friedrich (born Greifswald, 1774 – died Dresden, 1840) embodies Romantic art like few other painters. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Hamburger Kunsthalle ...

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important German painters, and his landscape works live large in the cultural consciousness in Germany and beyond. You have probably seen the ...

BERLIN — I discovered the art of Caspar David Friedrich reproduced on a book cover published in the 1980s, when the German artist’s paintings were used to illustrate anything associated with ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea” (1822) is one of those paintings that stay with you ...