Instructor: Dr. Arthur Turfa has been a Lutheran pastor for 45 years, serving in bilingual congregations and as an Army chaplain. He also has a 25-year+ career teaching German, English, and History on the secondary and post-secondary levels. He took four Art History courses at Penn State in fulfillment of a BA in German, and appreciates the artistic interconnections /influences of one art form on another. A published poet and writer, he enjoys writing ekphrastic poetry. Description: Matthias Grünewald (c. 1479-1528) painted the Isenheim altarpiece between 1512-1516 (interior sculpture by Nikolaus Hagenauer [c. 1445-1460, before 1538]) for a monastery near Colmar, France. It is Grünewald's largest work and is considered his masterpiece. It influenced the Expressionist movement and also the composer Paul Hindemith. Now housed in Colmar's Unterlinden Museum, the altarpiece was restored in 2022.