Dozens of works will be on view for the next two months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” exhibit.

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

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 ...

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

“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 Sme ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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