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鈥淭he Soul of Nature鈥� at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of many exhibitions dedicated to German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774鈥�1840) on the 250th anniversary of his death.

Although Caspar David Friedrich is today thought of as a painter of oil on canvas, he returned continually throughout his life to paper and ink, making sepia-toned works of precise penwork that treat delicately his great subject, the natural landscape of his native Germany.

Contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer publicly, and illegally performs Nazi salutes in each of his Occupations (1969) performances against various German backdrops.

A new show opening in February at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774.

In nature, the air feels different. While in the absence of man-made life, the sounds of rustling leaves are like a language your soul understands.

Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.

Does it make sense to connect the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and the physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)

Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, 鈥淐aspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature鈥� speaks of a world out of joint.

Your guide to this season鈥檚 must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City.

A researcher, lost in thoughts and coffee, finds inspiration where she least expects it: on ArtMajeur, a world of landscapes that goes beyond the classic flower-filled fields.

As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents A Brush with Nature: Romantic Landscape Drawings, an exhibition of more than 30 works from the Getty Museum鈥檚 collection by significant British, French, and German artists from the Romantic period.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural world with bleak yet awe-inspiring beauty.

At the beginning of the year, my news-junkie father told me that he鈥檇 finally let all of his subscriptions expire. Between the LA fires, the losses of David Lynch and Marianne Faithfull.

On February 8, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich (1774鈥�1840); it will be on view through May 11, 2025.