Alte Kameraden
(each piece: 100x 120 / acrylic on cancas / 2012)
(each piece: 100x 120 / acrylic on cancas / 2012)
The series of paintings called “Alte Kameraden” is inspired by photos taken of WWI and WWII veterans. It consists of depictions of warmangled faces ( in a physical as wellpsychological sense), who just a few years back looked perfectly normal. It isa difficult and unpleasant subject, especially in thesetimes when we are, more than ever, attached to our good looks and try to improve them.
The sight of faces like those in the paintings is shocking andrepulsive, but it has to be realized that these where a common sight in post war times. Many people had beendisfigured and it happened not so long ago.
Looking at these photographs I ask myself a question, what would happenif I had been thusly disfigured? How does a modern personfeel, literally losing ones face? It is the part with which we identify the most. Does it really constitute our humanity?
The sight of faces like those in the paintings is shocking andrepulsive, but it has to be realized that these where a common sight in post war times. Many people had beendisfigured and it happened not so long ago.
Looking at these photographs I ask myself a question, what would happenif I had been thusly disfigured? How does a modern personfeel, literally losing ones face? It is the part with which we identify the most. Does it really constitute our humanity?
