Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is probably the most notable of the 19th century German Romantic artists (even if you’re ...

It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.

“The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of many exhibitions dedicated to German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) on the 250th anniversary of his death.

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

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think ... His pictures of graveyards, seashores, shipwrecks, and mountain vistas force us to ponder our place in the universe.

The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818, by Caspar David Friedrich In The Open Window (1921), Juan Gris uses black and dark colours to show parts of the room that are in shade. Light tones are ...