Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings ... The work is most shocking for what it doesn't represent: ships navigating the choppy waters.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural world with bleak yet awe-inspiring beauty.

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa 1817) is among the world’s most recognizable — please, let’s rest the tired word “iconic” — paintings. If the artist’s name or the title ...

(New York, NY – February 3, 2025) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press preview for Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first major retrospective in the United States ...