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Painting of two standing together, looking at the moon before a leaning tree.
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

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The people standing together in a gallery with hard hanging from the wall, facing them.
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Exhibition Tour—Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
February 20
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Now Beacon, Now Sea
You see the horizon endless against lowering clouds.
February 3
Two men in coats stand beside a large tree, gazing at a crescent moon in a dusky sky.
Winter in the Newest World
The figures in Friedrich’s painting are entirely embodied, present with their thoughts and with each other, just as I have longed to be.
February 3
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three individuals sitting atop a hill watchinga ship sail away to the sunset.
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Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich’s birth, three institutions present a digital resource of roughly 250 works to honor Germany’s most famous Romanticist painter.