(CNN) — When Caspar David Friedrich died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the contemporary art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is reaching new heights — and the ...

“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner. Caspar David ...

Editor's note: A memorial service for Paul W. Friedrich will be held Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. in Bond Chapel Paul W. Friedrich, an anthropologist, linguist and poet whose sweeping scholarship ranged from ...

North – where the tight cramp of winter night cuts hard into the span of each day’s light, and long-handed shadows scrape shapes across the frigid land, where sublime and lethal beauty linger in the ...

The German artist’s landscape paintings tried to capture the sublimity of a world that has vanished. Surely you have seen him. He’s a sturdy blond man in a sharp blue suit, standing at the edge of the ...

Heinrich von Kleist, the German writer, once said that looking at a seascape by Caspar David Friedrich was like having your eyelids cut off. You were staring directly at death, at the loneliest center ...

Art advisor and collector Varun Kaji discusses the contemporary art landscape, the rising influence of Global South artists, and his mission to reshape how South Asian voices enter the global canon.

The folks at Friedrich Air Conditioning got an odd call a few years ago when a local woman tried to persuade the San Antonio company to take her old unit back. She found herself in an extended game of ...