Romanticism
Two publications show how, in Caspar David Friedrich's world, mankind is puny against nature’s power
The German artist's work is pored over in two hefty tomes, one a smart overview, the other a comprehensive guide
Caspar David Friedrich: his rise from obscurity to fame
Slew of shows this year mark 250th anniversary of German artist who, as a favourite of Hitler, had fallen out of favour
A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction
The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m
Do good monarchs make bad art collectors? Inside the British Royal Collection
Plus, how UK museums can respond to the energy crisis, and a haunting Henry Fuseli painting
Louvre’s Delacroix exhibition uncovers France’s superstar of the Romantic era
His boundless inventiveness as a painter—and not only—shines through in this ambitious survey
Spark your wanderlust with a wander through Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism
Romanticism show surveys landscapes of northern Europe
First major exhibition of its kind includes Turner and Friedrich as well as less familiar “Romantics”
From the archive | Book review: How Caspar David Friedrich's star rose in the age of post-modernism
A magnificent visual record of the work of the German artist, who was virtually unknown before the 1960s, is matched by its scholarly text
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich brought into focus in the first reliable catalogue raisonée of his drawings
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
Shepherd & Derom Galleries bring English Romantic Art to New York
The star of this show is the elegant portrait by Will Powell Frith of Annie Gambart
Constable to Delacroix: British art and the French Romantics
Now on at Tate Britain
Decadent collection of English art enthusiast and eccentric William Beckford to go on show at Bard Graduate Center
A sample of the collector's princely taste
The Kunstmuseum Basel hosts major exhibition to mark centenary of Arnold Böcklin's death
The passing of the greatest German symbolist is commemorated
Timothy Mowl's William Beckford biography casts the famed collector as "a sexual and architectural Lucifer"
The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail