Visions of Wonder

VISIONS OF WONDER exhibition in Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Main Library until June 8th 2026. The online catalog VISIONS OF WONDER: Illustrating Grimms’ Tales Across Two Centuries begins with Ron Patkus’ Preface (1/5) on Maurice Sendak’s illustrations of ‘Dear Mili’. A complete tale by Wilhelm Grimm was apparently lost until its rediscovery at auction in 1974. You say: 'Tell me a story.' And it replies: 'Yes, dear Mili, just listen.' In this tale three days are actually thirty years and the historical background is the Thirty Years’ War. VISIONS OF WONDER bring together Romanticism, horror and the search for freedom as if under a magnifying glass. In addition, there is the aspect of the biographies of the authors and artists. This creates a tangle of life, which was unpacked and unraveled by Ron Patkus, Elliott Schreiber and their students. VISIONS OF WONDER (2/5) and (4/5, case 12) mentions my Wild Swans.

As part of this exhibition, I gave a talk entitled “What Grimms’ Fairy Tales tell us about Resistance and Survival” at the invitation of Professors Ron Patkus, Elliott Schreiber and Silke von der Emde. The protest of the Göttingen 7, Jacob Grimm’s participation in the Congress of Vienna and the German National Assembly, the development of democracy and the threats it faces both yesterday and today – all of this lies behind the stories and the illustrations.

April 04th - 12th 2026, Hamburg, Museum der Arbeit, Wiesendamm 3, BuchDruckKunst Messe 

In a blog post for the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection at the University of Utah, Theadora Soter presents my interview with her as the ‘Book of the Week’, discussing the story behind the creation of my artist’s book The Angel is my Watermark.

Der rote Faden (the golden thread) artists’ books online catalog Herzog August Library. In the middle of the catalog you find Allmannigfalt’ge, Goethe's six muses. Why are the portraits of women printed on the accordion fold of the flag book? Because Goethe keeps the women who love him at a distance. And he passed off Marianne von Willemer's poems as his own in the West-Eastern Divan.