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Egon Altdorf: Into the Light

Egon Altdorf: Into the Light

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Publisher: Sansom & Co
ISBN: 9781915670083
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 15/06/2023
Width: 22 cm
Height: 28.3 cm
From sculpture to woodcuts, glass design to poetry, the work of German artist Egon Altdorf crossed boundaries. ‘Making culture behind the barbed wire’ was how Altdorf endured wartime captivity, inspiring a life dedicated to art that was innovative, spiritual and redemptive. Exhibiting in London alongside sculptors Barbara Hepworth, Lynn Chadwick and Reg Butler at the Unknown Political Prisoner exhibition (1953), he adopted an increasingly abstract approach, rooted in Biblical symbolism yet embracing different faiths, notably in designs for the outstanding interior of Wiesbaden’s new synagogue. Exploring Altdorf’s work in ten interdisciplinary chapters, this book illuminates the still-overlooked contribution of artists who reshaped postwar existence: the lost generation.
Graham Ward: Introduction_x000D_ _x000D_ 1  Judith LeGrove  Egon Altdorf: The lines of life_x000D_ _x000D_ 2  Deborah Lewer  The prodigal and the prophecy: Egon Altdorf’s woodcuts and German art debates, c.1948–52_x000D_ _x000D_ 3  Dorothea Schöne  Change and (re)reflection in the sculptural work of Egon Altdorf after 1945_x000D_ _x000D_ 4  Judith LeGrove  A vital Conversation: Egon Altdorf and British sculpture in the early post-war years_x000D_ _x000D_ 5  Julia Kelly  Symbolism of the cosmos in Egon Altdorf’s post-war sculpture_x000D_ _x000D_ 6  Elaine Morley  Egon Altdorf and the transformative power of art: the postwar literary context_x000D_ _x000D_ 7  Nicolette David  Beyond language: the relationship between art and poetry in Egon Altdorf’s work_x000D_ _x000D_ 8  David Jasper The art of Egon Altdorf: symbolism and spirituality_x000D_ _x000D_ 9  Ulrich Knufinke  Wiesbaden’s new synagogue (1966) and its design by Egon Altdorf_x000D_ _x000D_ 10  Judith LeGrove  Into the light: Egon Altdorf’s memorials to the future_x000D_ _x000D_ Arie Hartog  Epilogue

Judith Le Grove, Graham Ward, Deborah Lewer

Dr Judith LeGrove is a writer and curator who has worked extensively with sculptors and their archives. Recent publications include The Sculpture of Michael Lyons (2013), Geoffrey Clarke: a sculptor’s materials (2017), Geoffrey Clarke: catalogue raisonné (2017), and Kenneth Draper: On the Edge of Sculpture (2023). Professor Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. His many books include Cities of God (2000), Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2004), Christ and Culture (2005), Unbelievable (2014) and Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II (2022). Dr Deborah Lewer is a specialist in modern German art and also works in the field of the intersection between art and religious faith. She has published widely on modern art, culture and politics in Germany and Switzerland, is a senior lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow. Dr Dorothea Schöne studied art history, political science, sociology and philosophy at Leipzig University. She was a Fulbright exchange student at the University of California, Riverside (2005–6), later assisting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (touring, Nuremberg and Berlin, 2010). In 2014 she became director and chief curator of Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin. Her publications focus especially on mid-20th century German art. Dr Julia Kelly is a writer and researcher on modern and contemporary art with interests and expertise in the histories and theories of sculpture, interactions between art and anthropology, art writing, and the legacies of surrealism. She is Course Director at Leeds Beckett University.

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