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Christian Hess’ Exhibition in Rome |
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| Vanni Ronsisvalle | |
| RAI television news - February 24, 1975 | |
Christian Hess: in his dramatic existence, the mark of an artistic condition that, for the best, was to become the symbol of an age and a spirit of the time. Born in Bozen towards the close of the century and killed in Austria in 1944 by a bombing raid, he had grown up in the years that preceded the collapse of a world and that in painting, just as in literature, led to such extremely important results. Munich, as represented by the Blaue Reiter, the November Group, and Expressionism, gave him that imprint we still find in these pictures. An opponent of Nazism, his strange destiny took him to live in Sicily where Hess combined the Mediterranean radiance with the glumness of the events in Central Europe. This is witnessed by the works we have seen at the Germanic Institute in Rome. A traveling exhibition is going to stop in other Italian towns and, indeed, shall get to its conclusion in Munich. |
