The Return of the Sons (Die Heimkehr der Söhne)

~THE MEANS by which the English became aware of contemporary German art are of interest, not simply because they demonstrate the degree to which certain aspects of this art were by the 1840s common knowledge, but also because they show a process of selectivity at work which suggests a directed concern. Indeed one might say that the significant feature was not so much...

~PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE is an artist whose theories and aspirations are more immediately striking than his artistic achievements. His exciting insights are communicated in the enthusiastic speculations of his notes and letters more readily than in the pictures themselves....