Hear about the young Friedrich’s engagement with Romantic ideas.

Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, Self Portrait, 1800.

Speakers:

Alison Hokanson, curator of European Paintings and co-curator of the exhibition

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, assistant curator of Drawings and Prints and co-curator of the exhibition

Andrea Wulf, historian of Romanticism

To learn more about Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, please visit ⁠⁠met.org/friedrich⁠⁠.

This audio guide is sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Music: Brahms, Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118, No. 2, performed by German Kitkin (Piano, Conductor) is licensed under CC-BY-4.0

Cover image: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). ⁠Wanderer above the Sea of Fog⁠, ca. 1817. Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 29 1/2 in. (94.8 x 74.8 cm). Hamburger Kunsthalle; Permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, acquired 1970 (HK–5161)