Born in Frankfurt in 1955, Bernhard Hartmann began his artistic career at the age of 18 as a press photographer for a major German newspaper. Self-taught, he studied art and later became a landscape photographer. He owes his success to his breathtaking representations of historical buildings that are highly symbolic and entirely dedicated to art and culture. His frontal and cinemascopic images are often compared to the Romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.