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

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 ...

Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...

Yes, I would like to receive the newsletter. I can unsubscribe whenever I like via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter. For more information please see our terms and conditions.

And this is Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea." Contemporaries were fascinated. It seemed "as if one's eyelids had been cut away," as Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) summarized.