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.
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 ...
“Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11.
The landscape painter Caspar David ... Friedrich’s paintings of mountains, forests and coastlines often feature symmetrically arranged ruins, crosses or — Friedrich’s most famous motif ...
The foremost representative of early German Romantic painting, Friedrich is thankfully receiving renewed attention at New ...