Introduction to the Internet art exhibition

Otto Bachmann to the ballad “faithful-dear, faithful-dear is lost” by Clemens Brentano and

At which time the ballad “faithful dear, faithful dear is lost" (“Ballade “Treulieb, Treulieb ist verloren“) from Clemens Brentano developed is not well known. Otto Bachmann (*1915 Luzern/Switzerland † 1996 Losone/Ascona/Schweiz) understood you it, with his work to dedicate original lithographs and designs to this topic in brilliant form. It proved its graphic abilities not only in this ballad, and then it has with the lithographs to “Goethe's Faust I”, which it brought from 1941 to 1942 on the stone its international break-through obtained. From the 7 original Lithografien on China tissue paper, Editeur Morgarten publishing house, Conzett & Huber, Zurich, which it manufactured to Faust 1 of Goethe, are in this Internet exhibition 3 works to see in an edition of in each case 50 copies, the Walpurgisnacht of 1941, night open field of 1942 and Gretchen in the dungeon of 1941.

Clemens (Maria) Brentano (*1774 Ehrenbreitstein † 1842 Aschaffenburg) is the most fascinating among the creators and poets of the later German romance. Its ballad “faithful dear, faithful dear is lost” stands before us with the matter of course of the completed work of art. Faithful-dear, the drive-possessed “Dirne” (prostitute), becomes for the poet the symbol of female life solidarity far beyond all civil form and delimitation. And that it faithfully loving and on all ways and to go astray of amorous adventures in the necrophilia and sow-anise-CH-metaphysical steadily pursuing poets becomes beside its shape the symbol of a narrowing, compelling and raping dear term. As the poet presents itself as the dreamer, who after-hunts for a presumed illusion over the loving to last, he succeeds in reducing the tragic end in the ironical and to give its seal the wise conciliatory clay/tone, which she leaves in the memory of the reader.

Certainly neither the man in his over-crept loyalty still the woman in their are untouchables without size, raised over all moral and all bad. In it the ballad of faithful-dear uncommonly is modern that she through-arranges human possibilities into last consequences inside. Hans Terwege.