Background
He was the son of Hermann Linde the Elder, a pharmacist and pioneering photographer.
He was the son of Hermann Linde the Elder, a pharmacist and pioneering photographer.
He specialized in "Oriental" themes. He continued his studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. From 1892 to 1895, he worked as a free-lance painter in India.
lieutenant is currently in the collection of the Übersee-Museum Bremen.
In 1896, he stayed briefly in Paris and Tunisia, then spent the next two years at the artists" colony in Dachau. He died six months after the First Goetheanum was destroyed by an arson fire.
According to Steiner, he died of a "broken heart", because of all the years he had devoted himself entirely to the building and its artwork.