295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 8 through May 11, 2025"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.

Friedrich and the soul of nature / Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein -- Moment, memory, monument / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Material matters : Friedrich, drawing, and the pursuit of the ineffable / Joanna Sheers Seidenstein -- Friedrich in the United States / Alison Hokanson -- From image to icon : Friedrich's Romanticism and the afterlife of a wanderer / Cordula Grewe -- g Catalogue.

"Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Working in the vanguard of the German Romantic movement, which championed a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self, Friedrich developed pictorial subjects and strategies that emphasize the individuality, intimacy, open-endedness, and complexity of our responses to the natural world. The vision of the landscape that unfolds in his art--meditative, mysterious, and full of wonder--is still vital today. Presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of Friedrich's birth in 2024, Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist held in the United States. Organized in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, with unprecedented loans from more than 30 lenders in Europe and North America, the exhibition will present approximately 75 works by Friedrich. Oil paintings, finished drawings, and working sketches from every phase of the artist's career, along with select examples by his contemporaries, will illuminate how Friedrich developed a symbolic vocabulary of landscape motifs to convey the personal and existential meanings that he discovered in nature. The exhibition will situate Friedrich's art within the tumultuous politics and vibrant culture of 19th-century German society and, by extension, highlight the role of German Romanticism in shaping modern perceptions of the natural world." Metropolitan Museum of Art website. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature

Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840 -- Exhibitions.

Landscape painting, German -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Romanticism in art -- Exhibitions.

Landscape painters -- Germany -- Exhibitions.

Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840.

Romanticism in art.

Landscape painters.

Landscape painting, German.

Germany.

1800-1899

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840.

Seidenstein, Joanna Sheers,

Koerner, Joseph Leo,

Grewe, Cordula,

Hokanson, Alison. Friederich and the soul of nature

Hollein, Max,

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

Soul of nature

9781588397898 (hardcover)

1588397890 (hardcover)