Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape: Second Edition

by Joseph Leo Koerner

Book Overview

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe's first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective--one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not "what he sees before him, but what he sees within him." This vulnerability of the individual when confronted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861894392
• ISBN13: 9781861894397
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"