If These Paintings Could Talk - A tour of my imaginary museum

“If I were to give the readers and observers of this book one bit of advice, it would be to imagine the book as a museum with many adjoining rooms full of paintings and to wander wherever you interests and curiosity lead you. That’s more or less how I started writing the book. I was motivated by the question of whether I could imagine saying something meaningful about a painting in a single sentence. I initially answered this question in the negative. But then it occurred to me that this could be interpreted differently. It testified to the fact that the interpretation of an artistic image actually begins with a powerful, practically dumbfounded impression. You have to sense the internal dynamics that led to the creation of the image. That became my criteria for selecting the images when I began writing the book – though still without any further perspective. Everything else came together along the way.”

The foreword by Dieter Wellershoff reveals how this book came to be and what you can expect from it: insights, outlooks, overviews of works of art and artists from the last 500 years – accompanied by literary texts that are full of surprises!