Critic’s Pick 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.

“Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” a major retrospective of the German romantic at the Met, speaks of a world out of joint.

Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, gooey sentimentalism and all. His landscapes-populated often by just one or a few figures, and many featuring ...

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the story of the Romantic rejection of the Enlightenment in the Age of Napoleon.

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) ...

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Jerry Saltz reviews the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Caspar David Friedrich retrospective, which captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy.

I went to the Met to take in the landscapes. I didn’t expect to find an old friend. “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this ...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) did not like exhibitions. Why would anyone think that putting different works, by different painters, in the same room, would be a great idea? Next to other ...

Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.