Friedrich Danielis
BOOKS (a selection)



"WORKING AT KRUT" as PDF

The last event of the Vienna exhibition in June 2009 was the presentation of "WORKING AT KRUT".




"FLOREY´S AUGENSPIEGELBLICK"

Now the blissful folly of making books has led me into a world new to me: to use the handwritten manuscript of the composer Wolfgang Florey´s "Augenspiegelblick" (8 movements for violoncello solo written for Susan Salm), translated as "The reflection in your eyes", as "text", and the extended and beautiful notes the author wrote as an underlying sub-text.



"LEHNWÖRTER" as PDF

LEHNWÖRTER is a painters book with original drawings and a gouache.
The literary texts are in German and play with quotes borrowed from Jean Paul, Lichtenberg, Herbeck, Nestroy and London Transport.




"FARBENSPIELE"
The catalogue of the show "Farbenspiele" of my artists books in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich), can be ordered directly from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek or, like several of my other publications, from the book-shop of the "Vienna Secession"




"MEIN STUNDENBUCH" as PDF ("My Book of Hours")

is, as its namesake´s, actually a painted book.
Handwritten and illuminated by 20 gouaches, it is an original work.
It distinguishes itself from the traditional book of hours by its text:
this unholy passage through a year I wrote myself, it contains therefore the observations of an anarchic utopian, determined in his love for this world.
I worked on this book from 1993 - 2003. Given its singular existence it had to be converted into a CD-ROM (to be accessible), beautifully rendered by Anselm Mueller.




"PASSING THROUGH" as PDF

is a cassette containing 20 photographs reproduced as fine art laser prints and an essay (in English), published in 21 numbered and signed copies.
It is a belated "crystallisation" of memories connected to the enchanted, but since lost, park at Leopoldskron (Max Reinhardt´s fairytale-villa near Salzburg).
The original photographs, taken in 1961-62, still exist in a single set and were used for the digitalization - the negatives have been lost in time.



The anthology "Die Freiheit, aufzubrechen wohin er will"
("The freedom to depart to wherever one wishes" [Hoelderlin])

is a perfect example of the books serving texts by other authors: it is my personal anthology of literature and decisive in my understanding of life.

It contains works by Gutenbrunner, Kafka, Pope, Brecht, Schoenwiese, Benn, Hoelderlin, Jean Paul, Nestroy, Adler and Buber, each one accompanied by an aquatint etching, all in their original language, with the English texts translated into German by myself.

The anthology has been locked into a box (made by the eminent bookbinder Peter Gruenauer) appearing to be a prison the pages try to escape from.

Printed in 40 signed and numbered copies, it represents my concept of art as a declaration of man´s independence.