Amsterdam Waanders, Uitgeverij 2008 1st Edition Hardcover Fine Octavo, 128 pages, colour illustrated. Bound in glossy printed boards, unused, a Fine copy.

ISBN10: 9040085684, ISBN13: 9789040085680, [publisher: Waanders Publishers] Hardcover Hardcover, 128 pages, copiously illustrated, glossy paper, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Gentle external handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Catalogue for the exhibition 'Caspar David Friedrich and the German Romantic Landscape", September 2008 - January 2009, organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Hermitage Amsterdam. -- Contents: Friedrich the Artist and Nicholas the Emperor / Mikhail B. Piotrovsky; A Dream Comes True / Ernst W. Veen; Caspar David Friedrich and His Contemporaries / Henk van Os; Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich / Jeroen Stumpel; Caspar David Friedrich in Russia / Boris Asvarishch; Carl [Karl] von Kügelgen: A German Landscape Artist in Russia / Maria Shlikevich; Carl Fohr: Drawings for Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse / Mikhail Dedinkin; Catalogue; Bibliography -- Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the leading artist of the German Romantic Movement, provides the focus for this fascinating book, which contextualises the artist's work in relation to his German predecessors, contemporaries and followers while also examining the important role which Russian collectors played in the development of this naturalistic genre. Inhospitable, ancient and timeless landscapes characterise Friedrich's haunting paintings, ...