“Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” the wistful rear view that Caspar David Friedrich painted circa 1817, has the pesky distinction of epitomizing not just a single artist but also a whole ...

His back to the viewer, he seems to be going places. Though Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog may be a familiar image, the painting has never found its way over the Atlantic ...

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the ... seen the 19th-century artist’s most famous painting, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, a lone figure that you see from the back looking out ...

By Peter E Gordon This year marks the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich, the celebrated German Romantic painter who is best known for Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, or The Wanderer above ...

You know the work of Caspar David ... Friedrich’s moody Two Men Contemplating the Moon inspired Waiting for Godot. The influence of the 1817 existential masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog is an entire epoch in a moment -- a single figure, anonymous and back to us so he’s every one of us, his thoughts his own, on top of a ...

Back in the German Romantic period of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, Caspar David Friedrich was your rückenfigur go-to. In his most famous work, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), a ...

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will ... all you see are a few rocky crags jutting out above the fog like inexperienced swimmers who are just barely managing ...

“Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) by Caspar David Friedrich (Hamburger Kunsthalle) But the “Wanderer” can be a little misleading. Most of Friedrich’s work is not interested in a ...