Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog
The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
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A Must-See Exhibition Is About To Land at the Met, ‘Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature’
“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” is hard to beat as an avatar of Romanticism ... A hundred years later, Friedrich was extolled as an exemplar of German art by Adolph Hitler — a distinction that put a ...
Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands
The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...
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Dresden: on the trail of a Romantic icon in Germany
Best known for his painting "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (c.1818), the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich is a "German icon" and an "Instagram meme". This year marks the 250th anniversary ...
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Creating depth and distance
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 ...