The Dual Realities of Hermann Linde To understand Hermann Linde is to understand a man split between the tangible grit of the street and the ethereal demands of spiritual architecture. He was a German painter of the Symbolist style, but his work refuses the easy categorization of a single era. His career functioned in two distinct phases: an early period defined by the light and textures of the East, and a later, intense devotion to t…