Caspar David Friedrich

Werner Hofmann was born in Vienna. He was Director of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, from 1969 to 1990 and has also held guest professorships at Berkeley, Columbia and Harvard universities. He has published numerous books on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries.

• 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

'Excellent' - Art Review