“Monk by the Sea,” 1808-10, in the exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Supported by By ...

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While the series employs classic motifs of Cuban architecture such as recognisable domes and windows, his paintings are rarely literal representations of specific places in Havana, according to ...

You 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 albums, book covers ...

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Caspar David Friedrich was the sixth child of Greifswald ... In 1790, Friedrich began his studies under Greifswald University architecture and drawing teacher Johann Gottfried Quistorp, who ...

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 ...