The Freud Drawings - Hardcover

Longo, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 393304099X ISBN 13: 9783933040992

Publisher: Kerber Verlag, 1999

Synopsis

On June 4, 1938, having paid the “German Reich Escape Tax” and the “Jew Property Tax,” Sigmund Freud left his apartment at 19 Berggasse forever. A few days before his emigration from Vienna to London, photographer Edmund Engelmann courageously and secretively recorded Freud's legendary residence, documenting it in photographs that were eventually published. An old volume of these photographs was presented to artist Robert Longo in 1993, acting as the catalyst and primary source material for the 30 large-size charcoal works that constitute The Freud Drawings. Via Longo's charcoal, Freud's deserted rooms become an admonition of a destroyed world, tension-filled reminiscences of a place both momentous and monstrous, eclipsed and strange.

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On 4 June 1938, after he had paid the 'The German Reich Escape Tax' and the 'Jew Property Tax', Sigmund Freud left his apartment in the Wiener Berggasse for the last time. A few days before his exile to London, the photographer Edmund Engelmann recorded and photographed his legendary rooms. In 1993 New York artist Robert Longo discovered a publication of these photographs and these constitute the basis of his cycle The Freud Drawings, which, since the year 2000 has grown to more than 30 large-size charcoal drawings. In his drawings, the deserted rooms, which partly show monstrous and strange attributes, become an admonition of a destroyed world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kerber Verlag
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 393304099X
• ISBN 13: 9783933040992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 122