Die Nacht, in der Kasimir Malewitsch das Schwarze Quadrat klaute

Hans Traxler is a master of comic art and a great storyteller who illuminates the cultural scene in a highly enjoyable way through these eight art stories.

Would Kazimir Malevich have created his legendary black square without this now completely forgotten group of anarchist female painting students at the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg? Would Piet Mondrian have achieved such fame if a good, albeit somewhat scatterbrained, fairy hadn't placed a small box in his cradle containing a ruler, a right angle, a pencil, four brushes, and four bottles of red, blue, yellow, and black paint? And what about the art-loving man who spends a night in a gigantic Nana during a retrospective of Niki de Saint Phalle and is then pursued across half of Europe by a flesh-and-blood Nana? Is every person an artist (Beuys) or will everyone be famous for fifteen minutes in the future (Warhol)? After reading these delightful satires, one may confidently doubt that.