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 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 ...

Two employees of the Alte Nationalgalerie hang the painting "The Sea of Ice" by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) on the wall of the museum. To mark the 250th anniversary of the artist's birth, the ...

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve finally reached the top of the mountain. Tired ...

(CNN) — When Caspar David Friedrich died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the contemporary art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is reaching new heights — and the ...

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 ...

BERLINBERLIN — A major show of Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition ...

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, perhaps ...

Caspar David Friedrich (born Greifswald, 1774 – died Dresden, 1840) embodies Romantic art like few other painters. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Hamburger Kunsthalle ...

He's considered one of the most important German painters of all time: Caspar David Friedrich. Loved for his landscapes, his works were unfortunately co-opted by the Nazis, who exploited them for ...

From magical beauty to dark melancholy. Silence, longing, and the forces of nature: Caspar David Friedrich created cult paintings and with them gave inspiration to Walt Disney, computer game designers ...