Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. If you were ...

You know the work of Caspar David ... Friedrich’s moody Two Men Contemplating the Moon inspired Waiting for Godot. The influence of the 1817 existential masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog ...

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important ... Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, a lone figure that you see from the back looking out over a wide valley of cliffs and mists.

Or did romanticism simply diagnose the problems? In conversations about art today, romanticism has a dusty, discredited air. Weren’t Courbet, Manet and Menzel already revolting against romanticism ...

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 ...

We are the hiker atop a lonely peak. Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Woman Before the Setting Sun’ (1818) The man in “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c1817) sports a green velvet suit and ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea ... Perhaps we find catharsis in the power of crashing waves or inspiration in the courage of sailors heading out to sea.

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 ...