New York. The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is ...

Stay up to date with Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774 - 1840) . Discover works for sale, auction results, market data, ... Sea of Ice: Echoes of the European Romantic Era. Santa Barbara Museum of ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, (ca. 1817). Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen. Photo: Elke Walford.

Yet things change: Friedrich has since been adopted as a poster boy by the environmentally minded. To quote historian and scholar Stephanie O’Rourke, Friedrich’s vision is of “a natural world that has ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810). Photo: Andres Kilger.

The Met’s earliest display of Friedrich’s transformation from curious draftsman to transcendental painter is Monk by the Sea (1808–10). The canvas is divided into horizontal bands: a grassy ...

“Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” the wistful rear view that Caspar David Friedrich painted circa 1817, has the pesky distinction of epitomizing not just a single artist but also a whole epoch ...

C aspar 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 of us, his thoughts his own, on top of a ...

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11.

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817), oil on canvas; Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen (photo by Elke Walford) ...

You can experience “Moonrise by the Sea” in real life in “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” on view through May 11, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.