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 ...

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 ...

7.8 x 6.5 x 1.5 in. (19.81 x 16.51 x 3.81 cm.) Porcelain ashtray designed by Vik Muniz as part of the 1999 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project. The image is based off of Casper David Friedrich's ...

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 winter after ...

Autumn is nipping at the leaves, and summer’s light is waning. Grab your favorite sweater and get ready to introspect like a Romantic because Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich is ...

A seemingly abandoned abbey plays host to a crepuscular funeral; two figures contemplate a moon that hangs beneath the gnarled branches of an oak; a shoreline sits beneath blackened vaults more ...