What made Friedrich's drawing The Cross in the Mountains so groundbreaking?

Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, The Cross in the Mountains, ca. 1806

Speakers:

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

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

Andrea Wulf, historian of Romanticism

Jordan B. Cooper, Lutheran pastor

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: Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat

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)