All hail Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich has some claim to be the greatest of Germany's Romantic painters, a group important for the development of landscape and the symbolic subject in Denmark, Russia and even Italy, but neglected and unknown in this country.

Six Friedrichs from Leningrad (including 'On A Sailing Ship') may not seem much of an exhibition, but it's six times the number in British public galleries and must not be missed - they are things of heightened realism and atmosphere.

They are accompanied by other German works - gouaches by Menzel, paintings by Overbeck, Klenze and Koch who, writing from Rome in 1805, said of the English, 'There is a crazy race of people who keep coming here... they call themselves aesthetes, they wear eyeglasses, they languish, they are filled with a sense of beauty...' But they did not buy his pictures.

The Genius Of Caspar David Friedrich
From Sat 20 April, Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House , Strand, WC2 (020-7845 4600)