Rüdiger Görner was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Zweig.

• Preface to the Paperback Edition // xiPreface to the English Edition // xiiiFoundations, or the Journey to an Achievement of the Century // 11: The Journey // 112: Determination and Confusion // 303: Wartime Art // 674: Pre-Schooling Vision // 1015: Exile in England // 1626: The Portrait as a Form of Representation // 1957: Portrait of the Older Artist as Educator, or Schools of Seeing // 238Notes // 307Bibliography // 334Acknowledgements: A Word of Thanks // 351

‘[A] rich literary study of a major cultural figure’

Rüdiger Görner was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Zweig.

• Preface to the Paperback Edition // xiPreface to the English Edition // xiiiFoundations, or the Journey to an Achievement of the Century // 11: The Journey // 112: Determination and Confusion // 303: Wartime Art // 674: Pre-Schooling Vision // 1015: Exile in England // 1626: The Portrait as a Form of Representation // 1957: Portrait of the Older Artist as Educator, or Schools of Seeing // 238Notes // 307Bibliography // 334Acknowledgements: A Word of Thanks // 351

‘[A] rich literary study of a major cultural figure’

Rüdiger Görner was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Zweig.

• Preface to the Paperback Edition // xiPreface to the English Edition // xiiiFoundations, or the Journey to an Achievement of the Century // 11: The Journey // 112: Determination and Confusion // 303: Wartime Art // 674: Pre-Schooling Vision // 1015: Exile in England // 1626: The Portrait as a Form of Representation // 1957: Portrait of the Older Artist as Educator, or Schools of Seeing // 238Notes // 307Bibliography // 334Acknowledgements: A Word of Thanks // 351

‘[A] rich literary study of a major cultural figure’