ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
The Crucible of Memory: The Life and Art of Ernst Eisenmeyer To encounter the work of Ernst Eisenmeyer is to witness a profound dialogue between the fragility of human existence and the indomitable strength of the spirit. Born in Vienna in 1920 to a Jewish family of Austro-Hungarian descent, Eisenmeyer’s early years were shadowed by the rising tides of antisemitism that swept through Europe. The annexation of Austria in 1938 did more t
han just alter his nationality; it shattered his world, thrusting him into a harrowing odyssey of displacement and survival. His journey from the streets of Vienna to the grim confines of the Dachau concentration camp at the age of eighteen remains one of the most poignant chapters of his life. It was within this crucible of unimaginable suffering that Eisenmeyer first grasped the power of the pencil as a tool for bearing witness, prod…