Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810 ... Depicted from a distance in a wooded landscape, the cross is framed in shadow against the sky. The composition became the basis for a ...

The foremost representative of early German Romantic painting, Friedrich is thankfully receiving renewed attention at New ...

1806), a drawing related to a seminal landscape painting ... on every level. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature Ms. Lewis, who taught art history for many years at Trinity College ...

A new show opening in February at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774. In nature, the air feels different.

Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings ... When people appear in a landscape painting, artists before Friedrich would typically make them the paining's ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of ... Mountains” (1807–8), the arresting simplicity of “Mountain Landscape in Bohemia” (c. 1830), and the fair waters in “Rocky Reef ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s life spanned an era of revolutionary ... The first stirrings of landscape painting in European art came in the late medieval period. Artists who wanted to paint nature ...

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.