Wolf Von Eckardt

Wolf Von Eckardt (6 March 1918 – 27 August 1995) was a German-American writer, art and architecture critic for the Washington Post.

He worked as a printer's apprentice before fleeing Germany in 1936 with a younger sister and their mother.

On arrival in the United States, he found work as a printer's apprentice and took classes at the New School for Social Research.

In 1981, he left The Post but wrote about architecture for Time until 1985 and continued teaching and writing until his first stroke in 1989.

He died of complications after a stroke on 27 August 1995 at his home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.