A 2018 addition by local architect Steven Risting mirrors the post-and-beam construction of the original. “I’m an old man,” Helmut Fortense says. “I have to recognize that. I’ve done my thing in this ...

Read them all here. In 1827, German philosopher K. F. E. Trahndorff coined the term Gesamtkunstwerk, a German word that, roughly translated, means “total work of art.” A Gesamtkunstwerk is ...

Now the Palais Stoclet, considered the best surviving realization of a Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art," faces an uncertain future as it marks its centennial. For the past decade this ...

For Wagner, opera offered the potential for the creation of a gesamtkunstwerk, a German term loosely translated as a “total work of art” or an “all-embracing art form.” The opera ...

And the word is an admittedly awkward, but handy, 15-letter handle, gesamtkunstwerk. If you’re one of the approximately 1 billion people who paid any attention whatsoever to the Olympic opening ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The diversity of German art now is the exhibition's key talking point. To this end, the body of ...

In his book, Henri adapts the term gesamtkunstwerk by describing a stream of art of the 1960s and early ’70s in terms that aptly apply to Roth’s work as well: it “sets out to dominate ...

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