Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog
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’s Lonely Islands
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 ...
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Caspar David Friedrich, a Misunderstood Master, Finally Gets a Worthy US Retrospective at the Met
The German Romantic painter's landscapes have seemed corny in the past, but they have here been given new life.
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Caspar David Friedrich: The shape of things to come
Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...
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The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time review – An intriguing take on the life and work of the German painter
Caspar David Friedrich was your rückenfigur go-to. In his most famous work, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), a solitary man stands on a crag, with a seemingly God’s-eye view above the clouds.