The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
Joseph Leo Koerner offers this insight near the beginning of “Moment, Memory, Monument,” his catalog essay for the exhibition Caspar David ... Friedrich is a touchstone for you in your life ...
Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...
You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think ... The artist spent most of his life in Dresden. He knew early success, his dazzling sketches showing Van Eyck levels of ...
Caspar David ... to the Friedrich home: Two sisters were lost to typhus and a younger brother perished by drowning. That Johann Christopher met his fate while trying to rescue Caspar from the icy ...
The German Romantic painter's landscapes have seemed corny in the past, but they have here been given new life.
Y ou know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal a ...