“It reminds me how small I am, but also how miraculous this life is.”

Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog⁠⁠⁠, ca. 1817

Speakers:

Andrea Wulf, historian of Romanticism

Jordan B. Cooper, Lutheran pastor

Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction writer and backpacker

Alua Arthur, death doula

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: Schubert, Minuet in A major, D. 334, performed by Gerhard Oppitz. Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.

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)