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.

The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching down on either side of that surprisingly narrow divide. There are the ravishingly misted, ...

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

“Monk by the Sea,” 1808-10, in the exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Supported by By ...

One of Georg Friedrich Kersting’s portraits of the artist, 1811’s Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, gives us Friedrich alone, seated at an easel, rendering a waterfall on the canvas.

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 ...

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Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings ... of the paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art's survey for Friedrich, the most famous artist associated with ...

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