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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important German painters, and his landscape works live large in the cultural consciousness in Germany and beyond. You have probably seen the ...

It’s a compelling classic: In Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer Above the Fog (1818), a lone man on a rock gazes out over range of mountains half-blanketed in fog, his back to the viewer. His hair ...

Caspar David Friedrich was a leading artist of German Romanticism. In 1818 he painted "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog," which has become almost synonymous with the Romantic era. We take a close look at ...

7.8 x 6.5 x 1.5 in. (19.81 x 16.51 x 3.81 cm.) Porcelain ashtray designed by Vik Muniz as part of the 1999 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project. The image is based off of Casper David Friedrich's ...

A seemingly abandoned abbey plays host to a crepuscular funeral; two figures contemplate a moon that hangs beneath the gnarled branches of an oak; a shoreline sits beneath blackened vaults more ...

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. Mary Tompkins Lewis ...

BERLIN — I discovered the art of Caspar David Friedrich reproduced on a book cover published in the 1980s, when the German artist’s paintings were used to illustrate anything associated with ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. (CNN) — When Caspar David Friedrich died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by ...

The age of Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, and it focused mainly on the power of human intelligence to explain the natural world. Romanticism emerged ...