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4. Monk by the Sea | Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature | Met Exhibitions
“These paintings confront me, rather than the other way around.”
Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1808–10
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
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: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 272, Moonlight Sonata
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)
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By The Metropolitan Museum of Art“These paintings confront me, rather than the other way around.”
Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1808–10
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
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: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 272, Moonlight Sonata
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)