Episode No. 692 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, and Danielle Canter.
Hokanson and Seidenstein are the co-curators of “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this weekend and is on view through May 11. It is the first retrospective of the German Romantic artist’s work in the United States. Friedrich was a leader in German Romanticism, which offered new understandings of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Last year was the 250th anniversary of Friedrich’s birth. The Met has published an excellent catalogue of the exhibition. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $45-50.
Canter is the curator of “A Brush with Nature: Romantic Landscape Drawings,” which opens at the J. Paul Getty Museum on Feb. 18. The exhibition features dozens of drawings in which artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Théodore Géricault, and Friedrich respond to the natural world around them. “A Brush with Nature” will be on view through May 25.
Instagram: Alison Hokanson, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Tyler Green.
Air date: February 6, 2025.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Ruins of Oybin, ca. 1812.
Caspar David Friedrich, Country House in a Broadleaf Forest, ca. 1797.
Caspar David Friedrich, Figures Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1797-99.
Caspar David Friedrich, Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund, ca. 1803.
Caspar David Friedrich, View of Arkona with Rising Moon, 1805-06.
Caspar David Friedrich, View of the Elbe Valley, 1807.
Caspar David Friedrich, Morning Mist in the Mountains, ca. 1807-08.
Thomas Cole, View of Schroon Mountain, 1838.
Caspar David Friedrich, Cross by the Baltic Sea, 1815.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Cross in the Mountains, 1807-08.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Cross in the Mountains, ca. 1806.
Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1808-10.
Caspar David Friedrich, Meadows near Greifswald, 1821-22.
Caspar David Friedrich, Study of an Oak and Tree with Roots, 1809.
Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, 1811.
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, ca. 1817.
Caspar David Friedrich, Woman before the Rising or Setting Sun, ca. 1818-24.
Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825-30.
Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at the Window, 1822.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Ruins of Castle Landskron in Pomerania, ca. 1825.
Caspar David Friedrich, Dolmen near Gützkow, ca. 1837.
Caspar David Friedrich, New Moon or Solar Eclipse above the Riesengebirge, ca. 1828.
Caspar David Friedrich, Northern Landscape, Spring, ca. 1825.
Caspar David Friedrich, Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, ca. 1835.
Caspar David Friedrich, Bushes in the Snow (From the Dresden Heath II), 1827-28.
‘Gebüsch im Schnee’
Friedrich, Caspar David
1774-1840.
‘Gebüsch im Schnee’, 1827/28.
Öl auf Leinwand, 31 x 25,5 cm.
Dresden, Gemäldegalerie, Neue Meister.
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‘Bushes in snow’
Friedrich, Caspar David
1774-1840.
‘Bushes in snow’, 1827/28.
Oil on canvas, 31 x 25.5cm.
Dresden, Gemäldegalerie, Neue Meister.
Caspar David Friedrich, Spruce Thicket in the Snow (From the Dresden Heath I), 1827-28.
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