Item
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Ausgewählte Fabeln
- Title
- en_US Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Ausgewählte Fabeln
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US #103 of 239
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Creator
- en_US Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Dittrich, Simon
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- 2023-07
- en_US 1977
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1977
- Abstract
- en_US This is one of a number of purchases made in a visit to Peter Bichsel's shop in Zurich. This publication belongs among our valuable holdings of recent artists. There are 27 of Lessing's fables here. The four signed full-page etchings have their own style, shared by the fifth on the book's cover. As to the etchings, Bodemann #542 comments aptly: "Kombination von naturalistisch beobachteten Konturen und abstract verfremdenden Binnenzeichnungen. Spiegelung der Spannung zwischen einfacher Form und hintergründigem Inhalt as Wesen der Fabel." Dittrich exploits the peculiarities of Lessing's fables in his etchings. The cover's lion takes our whole attention at first. Only later do we sense his animation and notice the cock's comb at the base of his platform. Both oak and pig seem to be as much machine as organism. Perhaps Dittrich's art is confirming the fable's question: Does either creature really relate to the other? Is that owl a spaceship? An organ? A body without a soul or perhaps a soul without a body? Lessing's take on FG is that the birds so devour the grapes that no fox ever thought of jumping at them again. Is Dittrich's wolf the noble wolf that tries in vain to persuade shepherds to help him kill fewer lambs? This is a thoroughly serious artistic endeavor. 8¾" x 13".
- Identifier
- en_US 542
- en_US 13406 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Trajanus Press
- en_US Frankfurt
- Subject
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books