In 1987 The National Gallery in London bought Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich, a German landscape painter. Like so many of his paintings, it is full of a sense of mystery. Friedrich's paintings are not well known in Britain, and this was the first oil painting by him to enter a public collection in England. His life and the development of his extraordinary landscape imagery are the subjects of this production. '...intelligent, informative, and tightly written ... solid piece of artistic analysis ... most useful to students of art' Video Rating Guide for Libraries, USA