Andre Butzer, Friedrich Holderlin. Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons
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Friedrich Hölderlin is probably André Butzer’s favorite poet and
ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his “favorite
people ever.” His identification with the poet goes even further,
as Hölderlin’s day of death is Butzer’s own birthday. As Butzer
moved to Los Angeles, the land of his youthful dreams, for the
first time in 2001, he got homesick. The home he longed for lay
neither in the old world nor in the new. In California, he read
Hölderlin’s Hyperion and was shaken: “As I read, I felt that I
understood every word. I thought these words came from me.” Butzer
recognizes himself in Hölderlin’s fateful protagonist and invents
the figure of the homeless Wanderer. His home is in painting, and
so he sets off down “Hyperion Ave”—the street on which The Walt
Disney Studio opened in 1926. According to Butzer, “Hölderlin, just
like Disney, expresses longings. And these can be put to use.” For
Hölderlin, poetry is the place that makes human existence on earth
possible. For Butzer, it is painting. In poetry, he finds succor to
settle and reconcile the extreme contradictions of the world
through his painting. In this artist’s book, Butzer has compiled 47
poems written by Hölderlin between 1793 and 1843 on the four
seasons. These poems link the cycle of the seasons with man’s path
of life like a parable: the autumnal fulfillment of summer’s
maturation, the blossoming of life in spring and the experienced
barrenness of winter. The poems may sound simple, but in them
Hölderlin gives shape to human endurance in seemingly hopeless
conditions: hope, doubt, wonder, longing, love. Matters of the
heart, simple, lucid and vulnerable. Just take Hölderlin’s beloved
Diotima. In Untitled (Diotima), she gazes towards a place hidden
from our view. Is she looking into her innermost self or into the
inaccessible distance? Seeing her see, we recognize ourselves in
her gaze. To accompany the poems, Butzer has created 40
watercolors. His iconic characters—the Wanderer, the Woman, the
Peace-Siemens—cyclically fade and reappear in the delicate colors.
Each figure, each thing, each stroke, each patch and each hue of
color carries itself. Yet time and again, a fragile harmony emerges
from their contrary bonding. The book does neither adhere to the
chronological everyday time nor the ‘factual’ succession of the
seasons. Instead, Butzer has placed the poems and watercolors
intuitively, forming open constellations. This corresponds to
Hölderlin’s wackily fantastic dating, in which a poem from 1843,
for instance, can be attributed to 1758, 1648 or 1940. In the
persistent poetic time, the past and the future are one complete
whole. In unison words and images ponder man’s dwelling upon this
earth, in the humblest and most poetic way.
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