Full Name: Hofstätter, Hans Hellmut
Gender: male
Date Born: 1928
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): art theory, symbolism (artistic concept), and Symbolist
Overview
One of the founders of the 20th-century re-evaluation of the Symbolist movement in art. He issued a catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of Caspar David Friedrich in 1978.
Selected Bibliography
Symbolismus und die Kunst der Jahrhundertwende: Voraussetzungen, Erscheinungsformen, Bedeutungen. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1965; Caspar David Friedrich: das gesamte graphische Werk. Herrsching: Manfred Pawlak, 1978; Jugendstil: Druckkunst. Wiesbaden: R. Löwit, 1968, English, Art Nouveau: Prints, Illustrations and Posters. New York: Greenwich House, 1984;