Heinrich Hofmann1889

Christ and the Rich Young Ruler

A rich young man kneels before Jesus asking how to inherit eternal life, and goes away sorrowful when told to sell all he has and follow (Mark 10). By the German painter Heinrich Hofmann.

Christ and the Rich Young Ruler by Heinrich Hofmann depicting Mark 10:17
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About Heinrich Hofmann

1824-1911 · German

Heinrich Hofmann was a German academic painter whose devotional images of Christ — most famously Christ in Gethsemane and Christ in the Temple — became some of the most widely reproduced religious paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries.