C.D.Hentschel (Art)

by dhw, Thursday, January 26, 2012, 15:34 (4684 days ago) @ xeno6696

Matt,-Thank you for your post about Claus Dietrich Hentschel, and your insightful interpretation of our home page painting. He would have been very interested to hear both views, and yours may well be closer to his thinking than mine. Your maze idea features in other paintings, but so too do rigidly geometrical ceilings and structures. There's often a stark contrast between such highly ordered forms, architectural ruins, and Nature, which is sometimes luxuriant but sometimes desolate. I wish I could point you to a full exhibition of his works, but even the websites (including his own) are very limited. -I'm really pleased that you've gazed at the picture even before now. Some years ago I tried very hard to interest curators over here in Claus's work (he is quite famous in the German-speaking world), and came up against a solid brick wall. I'm convinced that such art would appeal to people of all cultures and generations, and your response reinforces this conviction. But the world of the arts is sometimes akin to that of the sciences ... there are lines to be toed, trends to be followed, contacts to be nurtured. Claus simply went his own way, and I find that all the more admirable.-You are right ... he has provided a presence without being present. I guess that's what art does.