The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Self-Portrait” (1800), black chalk on wove paper; SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (photo Statens Museum for Kunst) Caspar David Friedrich, “The Watzmann ...

The German Romantic painter's landscapes have seemed corny in the past, but they have here been given new life.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa 1817) is among the world’s most recognizable — please, let’s rest the tired word “iconic” — paintings. If the artist’s name or the title ...