Friedrich: Spruce Thicket in the Snow Holiday Cards

$23.95 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Christmas cards. This contemplative scene of snow-covered spruces was originally painted by Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). Friedrich reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Working in the vanguard of the German Romantic movement, which championed a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self, he emphasized the complexity of our responses to the natural world…