{"id":56006,"date":"2025-02-11T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56006"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:12:04","slug":"friedrichs-soul-of-nature-at-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/02\/friedrichs-soul-of-nature-at-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedrich&#8217;s Soul Of Nature At The Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56007\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56007\" class=\"wp-image-56007\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a man with his back to the viewer climbing a rock looking out over a fog-covered landscape.\" width=\"208\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-798x1024.jpg 798w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-768x985.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-1197x1536.jpg 1197w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-1597x2048.jpg 1597w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog-scaled.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog<\/em> by Caspar David Friedrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened a new exhibition focusing on the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Despite Friedrich&#8217;s importance and widespread popularity,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the exhibition, entitled <em>The Soul of Nature<\/em>, is the first major museum show focusing on the artist in the United States. As such, the show serves as a broad introduction to the artist and his work to an American audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the curators, Friedrich saw nature as \u201ca site of emotional and spiritual discovery.\u201d Furthermore, his paintings \u201cmark the rise of an intimate response to the natural world that endures today.\u201d <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> made Friedrich a monumental figure of Romantic art by placing humanity in its proper context relating to the natural world. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is apparent even before he ventured into oil painting. The first gallery visitors walk into features sketches and ink wash drawings, which was his specialty before seriously taking up oil painting in 1808. His ink-wash drawings made in the first decade of the nineteenth century echo the later oil paintings he would execute. <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/collectionapi.metmuseum.org\/api\/collection\/v1\/iiif\/354644\/2258393\/restricted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Eastern coast of R\u00fcgen with Shepherd<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, for example, seems incredibly similar to his later, more well-known oil painting <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monk by the Sea<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> (featured later in the exhibition): a lone figure placed not in the center of the work but towards the bottom to show the enormity of the landscape around them. Another common component in Friedrich\u2019s work is showing faint traces of humanity even when no human figures are in the landscape: <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1e\/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_View_of_Arkona_with_Rising_Moon%2C_c._1805-1806_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">an abandoned boat left on a rocky shore<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">or<\/span> <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/collectionapi.metmuseum.org\/api\/collection\/v1\/iiif\/898213\/2296031\/restricted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the statue of a forest shrine, or a simple cross left on a hilltop<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56008\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_Monch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56008\" class=\"wp-image-56008 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_Monch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a beach with a single figure on the shore.\" width=\"309\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_Monch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_Monch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/800px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_Monch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Monk by the Sea<\/em> by Caspar David Friedrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His work encapsulates some of the core tenets of Romantic <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">art,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> through the combination of landscape and spirituality. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The exhibition poses these questions: \u201c<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> nature \u2018the book of God<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2019,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to be experienced and interpreted alongside biblical texts as a source of revelation?<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Or does divinity reside in the harmonious totality of nature?\u201d Many of the paintings will feature metaphors for the road to finding faith. His painting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistoryproject.com\/site\/assets\/files\/22263\/caspar_david_friedrich-morning_mist_in_the_mountains-1808-trivium-art-history.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Morning Mist in the Mountains<\/em><\/a> is probably the best example of this. A snowy, pine-dotted mountain emerges from a fogbank, while a small, almost imperceivable cross sits at its summit. This is meant to represent the long, difficult path to understanding both the natural world and finding salvation. Contemplation was another theme of his work, which also carries its own religious and spiritual connotations. His paintings often featured figures or groups with their backs turned to the viewer as if we were viewing the scene along with them.<\/span>\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was a motif that other artists in his circle would adopt as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While most of the exhibition seemed mainly expository, there was one aspect on which the Met curators took a stance. In recent years, scholarship on Friedrich has <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/08\/demotion-in-dresden-friedrich-landscape-loses-attribution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">pushed back against the previously common conception<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> of him as a misanthropic loner, creating his work in isolation. The Met exhibition follows this newer scholastic current, showing how Friedrich maintained great friendships, took on pupils, and fraternized with patrons. The exhibition also contained work by some of his friends and students, particularly Jentzsch, Carus, and Dahl, to compare and contrast contemporary trends in subject and form. Furthermore, despite Friedrich\u2019s focus on nature, that didn\u2019t mean <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the human world around him did not feature in his paintings. A single work stood out to me when I visited the exhibition: <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/collectionapi.metmuseum.org\/api\/collection\/v1\/iiif\/909613\/2294845\/restricted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Chasseur in the Forest<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> shows a lone French soldier in Friedrich\u2019s typical fashion, small and towards the bottom of the canvas to show the vastness of the trees. However, the curators note that Friedrich exhibited the painting in Dresden in 1814, shortly after Napoleonic French troops left the city. It is said to represent the plight of Napoleon&#8217;s soldiers<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> as they were leaving a country that had grown hostile to their presence. In the same gallery, Met curators also note how Friedrich featured oak trees in his other paintings, symbolizing German strength and identity. Some of the figures in his work wear very particular clothing that identifies them as young German men. In particular, medieval-style cloaks and black berets were popular among young liberal students in some of the German cities at the time, to the point that these articles of clothing had to be banned. Most notably, this clothing <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is seen<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in his <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two Men Contemplating the Moon<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the 1830 version <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">of which is<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> owned by the Met and was on display.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56009\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56009\" class=\"wp-image-56009\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of two men with their backs turned to the viewer looking at the moon through some trees\" width=\"235\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/main-image.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Two Men Contemplating the Moon<\/em> by Caspar David Friedrich, 1830<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Many of the paintings and other artworks were on loan from private collections and museums <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">worldwide<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, mostly in Germany. These include the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which loaned <em>Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog<\/em>, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which sent over <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monk by the Sea<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It\u2019s surprising to learn that until now, no other major American museum has ever dedicated an exhibition to Caspar David Friedrich. However, I suppose it\u2019s better late than never. <em>The Soul of Nature<\/em> allows American audiences (and the hordes of foreign tourists the Metropolitan Museum attracts) to fully understand the story of one of the giants of romanticism and, therefore, one of the great painters of nineteenth-century European art.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened a new exhibition focusing on the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. 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