Full Description
Hailed by Frank Whitford, art critic for The Sunday Times, as `the best book about this fascinating artist that I've ever read', this scholarly and thoughtprovoking book, available again after some time out of print, casts a remarkable light on Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic artist of the 19th century.
Contents
The Painter and the Zeitgeist * I. Friedrich in his Time * II. Three Key Works: 1. The Tetschen Altar 2. The Monk by the Sea 3. The Abbey in the Oak Wood * III. Public Life and Private Life * IV. The `Obscure Total Idea' * V. From Religious Intention to Free Interpretation
