Sunsets in calm ports, ships in waveless waters, and young men and women looking into the distance – these serene scenes encapsulate the essence of German Romanticism as depicted by the renowned painter Caspar David Friedrich. Now, the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin is hosting a major exhibition showcasing 115 of his landscape masterpieces. The showcase honours the 250th anniversary of Friedrich’s birth, who is hailed as one of Germany’s preeminent artists over the past two centuries. But Friedrich’s artistic legacy wasn’t always celebrated. Born in Greifswald, northeastern Germany, in 1774, h…
