Myth and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Helga Thieme is an academic staff member of the Ernst Barlach Stiftung in Güstrow, Germanythe archive, research center, and exhibition complex dedicated to the life and work of the artist. She has edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues published by the Foundation. Her recent publications include Barlach auf der Bühn. Inszenierungen 1919-2006 (co-ed., Güstrow, 2007) and the catalogues das Kunstwerk dieser Erde. Barlachs Frauenbilder (co-ed., Güstrow, 2010), and Mythos und Zukunftstraum. Texte und Bilder von Ernst Barlach (Güstrow, 2011). Klappentext In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. There exists no statement by Barlach to explain what prompted his interest and the resulting sequence of large drawings on the epic's climactic final segment, reproduced here. In conception and execution these drawings stand out in Barlach's graphic oeuvre, as they stand apart from the multitude of interpretations the Nibelungen inspired in art, literature, and music. This book discusses the epic and its course through German history, the artist's biography and the course of his work, as well as the place the drawings occupy in the art, culture, and politics of Germany in the 1920s and 30s and beyond to the ideological and political crises of Central Europe before and after the First World War. Zusammenfassung In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Song of the Nibelungen : From Medieval Epic to Cultural Icon and Nationalist Symbol Chapter 2. Ernst Barlach, 1870-1938: An Artist of and against his Time Ernst Barlach: Drawings on The Song of the Nibelungen Chapter 3. Celebration and Rejection of a Myth Bibliography Index ...

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Autorentext
Helga Thieme is an academic staff member of the Ernst Barlach Stiftung in Güstrow, Germanythe archive, research center, and exhibition complex dedicated to the life and work of the artist. She has edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues published by the Foundation. Her recent publications include Barlach auf der Bühn. Inszenierungen 1919-2006 (co-ed., Güstrow, 2007) and the catalogues das Kunstwerk dieser Erde. Barlachs Frauenbilder (co-ed., Güstrow, 2010), and Mythos und Zukunftstraum. Texte und Bilder von Ernst Barlach (Güstrow, 2011).

Klappentext
In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. There exists no statement by Barlach to explain what prompted his interest and the resulting sequence of large drawings on the epic's climactic final segment, reproduced here. In conception and execution these drawings stand out in Barlach's graphic oeuvre, as they stand apart from the multitude of interpretations the Nibelungen inspired in art, literature, and music. This book discusses the epic and its course through German history, the artist's biography and the course of his work, as well as the place the drawings occupy in the art, culture, and politics of Germany in the 1920s and 30s and beyond to the ideological and political crises of Central Europe before and after the First World War.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Song of the Nibelungen: From Medieval Epic to Cultural Icon and Nationalist Symbol
Chapter 2. Ernst Barlach, 1870-1938: An Artist of and against his Time Ernst Barlach: Drawings on The Song of the Nibelungen Chapter 3. Celebration and Rejection of a Myth Bibliography
Index

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