Painting / text-based / Solidarijut

Solidarijut

in memory of Kurt Bigler / Bergheimer

2008

acrylics on shirting
9 parts,  40 x 40 cm each

Solidarijut

2008

acrylics on shirting
40 x 40cm

The work Solidarijut (2008), which was created for the Bigler/Bergheimer-Preis, is composed of nine images that each show a Hebrew letter and a Latin letter in Kurt Bigler’s handwriting. 

Taken together, the Hebrew letters spell the word »Solidarijut« (Solidarity), the other letters the German word »Mitgefühl« (Sympathy). The handwritten letters are taken from a list that Kurt Bigler wrote in a concentration camp when he was 16,noting the names of friends whom he did not want to forget. Prizewinners each received one of the images.