Caspar David Friederich and the subject of lanscape

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe´s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ´what he sees before him, but what he sees within him´. Yet in their awesome power to capture the individuality of visible forms Friedrich´s pictures also accept and express the irredeemable otherness of Nature. 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. Beautifully illustrated, "Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape" is the most comprehensive account ever published in English on this most fascinating of nineteenth-century masters.