Heinrich Hofmann1900

The Visit of the Wise Men

Guided by the star to Bethlehem, the wise men from the East kneel before the child Jesus and open their treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh (Matthew 2). By the German painter Heinrich Hofmann.

The Visit of the Wise Men by Heinrich Hofmann depicting Matthew 2:1
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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.