Kataklump: Paul van Ostaijen, Heinrich Campendonk, Fritz Stuckenberg und der Kampf um den Expressionismus - Softcover

Ridder, Matthijs De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3884237128 ISBN 13: 9783884237120

Publisher: Wunderhorn, 2025

Synopsis

October 1918: The young Paul van Ostaijen arrives in Berlin, on the escape from Belgium and in search of a new beginning. In his hometown of Antwerp, he was the driving force of the breakthrough of modernism, but in Berlin he suddenly finds himself in the capital of Expressionism. The visual artists Fritz Stuckenberg, Lyonel Feininger, Arnold Topp and Heinrich Campendonk, who become good friends van Ostaijens, are at this time urgently looking for an alternative for the almighty gallery »Der Sturm«. Van Ostaijen brings fresh wind, enthusiasm and a revolutionary world of ideas. He is a driven who has dedicated his work entirely to the search for new forms and could thus give an impulse for a new movement after the Blue Rider. And this includes your own manifesto - with the title "Kataklump". But it doesn't get that far. "Kataklump" is the story of an avant-garde who has made it his mission to maintain and develop the spirit of expressionism. Matthijs de Ridder describes both Paul van Ostaijen's work as an art critic and dealer and his relationships with many modern thinkers and creators, whom he encountered in his time in Berlin, as well as the genesis of the poet's sensational poetry. The typographic masterpiece »Occupied City« as well as the lively expressive volume »Die Feste von Angst und Pein«, which have made Paul van Ostaijen one of the most sustainably reactive poets of Dutch-language poetry, have been created in Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wunderhorn
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3884237128
• ISBN 13: 9783884237120
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 244