Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the greatest painter of the Romanticmovement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. Hismelancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experimentstowards a radically subjective art. In this compelling and highly original book, winner of the 1992 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art, now made available in a compact pocket format, Joseph Leo Koerner analyses Friedrich's art as it emerges out of – and partly reorientates – a subjectivist aesthetic.