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 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 ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers, and ...

In the early 19th century Friedrich initiated a new movement in art, making the landscape genre Kunst für eine neue Zeit, “Art for a new era.” The visitor to the exhibition comes into contact with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two employees of the Alte Nationalgalerie hang the painting "The Sea of Ice" by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) on the wall of ...

For the first time, a major exhibition of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich has come to the United States. Curators Alison Hokanson and Joanna Seidenstein discuss the exhibit, Caspar ...

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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images) The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan ...

“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner. Caspar David ...

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 ...

Nature, wild and uncontrolled became a major subject and the focus shifted to reconnecting with emotion and spirituality. The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich is a perfect ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Smee NEW ...