{"product_id":"andr-butzer","title":"André Butzer","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9783754400159\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: TASCHEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eFriedrich Hölderlin is probably André Butzer's favorite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his \"favorite people ever.\" His identification with the poet goes even further, as Hölderlin's day of death is Butzer's own birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Butzer moved to Los Angeles, the land of his youthful dreams, for the first time in 2001, he got homesick. The home he longed for lay neither in the old world nor in the new. In California, he read Hölderlin's Hyperion and was shaken: \"As I read, I felt that I understood every word. I thought these words came from me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButzer recognizes himself in Hölderlin's fateful protagonist and invents the figure of the homeless Wanderer. His home is in painting, and so he sets off down \"Hyperion Ave\"-the street on which The Walt Disney Studio opened in 1926. According to Butzer, \"Hölderlin, just like Disney, expresses longings. And these can be put to use.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Hölderlin, poetry is the place that makes human existence on earth possible. For Butzer, it is painting. In poetry, he finds succor to settle and reconcile the extreme contradictions of the world through his painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this artist's book, Butzer has compiled 47 poems written by Hölderlin between 1793 and 1843 on the four seasons. These poems link the cycle of the seasons with man's path of life like a parable: the autumnal fulfillment of summer's maturation, the blossoming of life in spring and the experienced barrenness of winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems may sound simple, but in them Hölderlin gives shape to human endurance in seemingly hopeless conditions: hope, doubt, wonder, longing, love. Matters of","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41837360283781,"sku":"PR430769","price":165.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TT6N8T5IA1MA.jpg?v=1788136148","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/andr-butzer","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}