Imagination und Offenbarung

Essential stations on the path of painting from the end of the Middle Ages to the 20th century shine in the essays of Hella Krause-Zimmer - concisely described and set in motion intellectually. This volume, which completes the collection of her essays on painting, focuses on the individual artist and his image of the self-aware human being. With the end of the Middle Ages, an alert, attentive, but more external gaze gains the upper hand among painters. In the second part of her collected art observations, Hella Krause-Zimmer is mainly concerned with this phenomenon, as well as with pictures in general, in which steps of the development of consciousness since the Middle Ages are revealed. The recognizing human being, experiencing himself as I, becomes the theme here, connected with the search for a new spirituality. And so is characteristic for.