Ein Deutsches Requiem: After Brahms. Pt. 1
Ein Deutsches Requiem - No. 1
Denn wir haben hier keine bleibende Statt (sondern die zukünftige suchen wir).
[For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Hebrews, xiii.14.]
gouache & collage
1971
Notes on this work
This series of gouache/collages was painted in 1971 after an extended stint at Gastdozent at the school of art in Kassel which at the time was being run on pseudo-Maoist lines by the students themselves. Someone somewhere had mistakenly thought I would prove a beacon of solidarity. However, I did travel to Berlin with Red-Cell No.6 and sleep in a bed that touched the Berlin Wall. As a result of this episode, and its contrast with the deep humanism of Brahms....(cont.)