Caspar David Friedrich (17741840), 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.