Herman Friedrich Grimm Series

Herman Grimm was a German academic and writer who focused on the 'Great Masters' of art and their biographical narratives. He saw himself as the intellectual successor to Goethe, and his approach to art history, centered on artists' lives, shaped bourgeois taste across Germany and continental Europe. Grimm valued only the very greatest artists, like Raphael and Michelangelo, and his adoration of Raphael significantly contributed to the artist's 19th-century popularity. He was also among the first to use lantern slides in his lectures, though his methods were later superseded by more contemporary scholarship.