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 ...

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 ...

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 about the ...

BERLIN — I discovered the art of Caspar David Friedrich reproduced on a book cover published in the 1980s, when the German artist’s paintings were used to illustrate anything associated with ...

When Mao Yan was a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing, in the late 1980s, he chanced upon a photograph of The Monk by the Sea, a painting by the German artist Caspar David ...

That’s the way it was with fashion. But Friedrich was philosophical: “I spin my cocoon around me and leave it for time to decide what will come out, whether a bright ­butterfly or a worm.” What has ...

(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 ...