Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. If you were ...

Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of joint.

Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, gooey sentimentalism and all. His landscapes-populated often by just one or a few figures, and many featuring ...

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 ...

Or did romanticism simply diagnose the problems? In conversations about art today, romanticism has a dusty, discredited air. Weren’t Courbet, Manet and Menzel already revolting against romanticism ...

A new exhibit at the Met highlights the painting style of rückenfigur, but it's not just one German artist who's back on ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea” (1822) is one of those paintings that stay with you your whole life. It has all the requisite ingredients and then some: surreal beauty ...

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 ...

Trump 2.0, the Sequel: More Trump Than Ever 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 ...