Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape

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. 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.