Given the placement of the figures around that slab, I have to ask...
is this a grave?
No, DP.
My previous hint was taken from this quote:"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
Oho! Nietzsche.
Well, that explains the bushy moustaches.
Well, Francis. That quote was by Nietzsche, so is the grave site in Germany? I can't find your exact picture.
(gettin updates on this thread, but no others)
The "monument" of Klaus Friedrich Messerschmidt on the Nietzsche grave facing the side of the Roeckener church.
Clary has it.
It's Röcken, Germany.
Have been watching this one with great interest, excellent choice Francis.
I've been looking for this place for days before, with friends, Dutchy.
We had only a description of the place but no picture.
I didn't found it, a friend did.
Without hints it's a very difficult one....
Those figures are, btw, made of bronce and varnished with white car paint.
At Nietzsche's Grave
By
Antonio Foggi (Italy)
All "wanted to save Nietzsche",
Those who lived in his time,
Those who lived after,
And all those who ever
Will have anything to do with him.
That "fool" by the name of George
Once said, concerning him:
"He should have sung [
.], not spoken
",
He should have been a poet, not a philosopher.
I, "a worse fool" than he,
I have dedicated a simple reflexion to him,
That I had made for myself:
I love the color red,
Both the color of communism
And of Love,
Two Things
That I miss terribly
In our times.
Thus,
Also now, I do not know
If one has to save you
From hell, from purgatory,
Or from paradise,
But I know certainly
That it would already have meant a great deal,
Indeed, a tremendously great deal,
If you would have returned from your infamy
And pain-stricken fate
In order to love the world
And its people.
Rest in peace
so far you may reach,
My poor friend.
(JLN's Europe tour, btw, is focused a lot on Nietsche (but as far as I know, they aren't visiting Röcken).
Great, Walter. Still don't quite understand those statues, but bronze with white car paint? My word. We won't be hearing from JLN, I'm afraid.
Hey! Where's Clary. It's her turn!
Sorry - I thought that as I wasn't the one that did all the work I didn't deserve a turn!
So here's one for you:
Letty wrote:Still don't quite understand those statues ...
Some misunderstanding of the artist about a quotation in one of Nietsche's publications ... can't recall more precisely now, but critics said that this interpretation went to far.
Okay, Thanks, Walter. Weird, however.
Europe, Clary?
The placard on the door looks like it is written top to bottom like Chinese or Japanese.
