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 ...

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 – A major show of Caspar David Friedrich's iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In 1810, Johanna Schopenhauer, a prolific writer now mostly remembered as the philosopher’s mother, traveled to Dresden to visit the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). When she saw his newly ...

BERLIN (AP) — A major show of Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition ...