| Girl with Unicorn 2009 |
| Therefore, I asked rather absentmindedly, must we eat again from the Tree of Knowledge to regain our innocence? Yes, said he, that is the last chapter in the Legend of the World. Heinrich von Kleist About the Marionette Theater |
| Oil on Canvas 120 x 120 cm |
| The painting undemines, broadly speaking, common sense with ancient lore and thus creates a feeling of unreality that is nevertheless supremely real. The Tree of Life, to begin with, can be easily recognized because a Serpent is wound around it. Here it is burning, and out of its furnace rises Phoenix, the fabled bird. The Serpent has lost the proverbial Apple which has grown and is by now so big that the young Lady can sit on it. This must be the reason why she looks with a faint and somewhat mischievous smile at the beholder while sealing her lips. The lovely Unicorn with the bright blue eyes, symbolic of Christ caught by someone with a virginal and guileless heart, is traditionally seen as the reward for this rather tricky mental exercise. |
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