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.

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Are we having a Romantic moment? As reactionary winds lash ...

The end of winter in New York sometimes feels rife with melancholy. A few spring days taunt with the warmth and new life to ...

The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich ... is captured profoundly in ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think ... the 1817 existential masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog — which depicts a man in a dark overcoat with cane ...

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 ...