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DIETER APPELT.(photographer)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, March, 2001 by Kuspit, Donald
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German artists have always understood that the hand is more expressive, particularly of suffering, than the face. Nowhere in the history of Western art are there such eloquent images of anguish as the hands of Mary and John in Lucas Cranach's Crucifixion, 1503, or Mary and Mary Magdalen in the crucifixion scene of Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altar piece, c. 1510-15. Even in such a different image as Otto Dix's 1926 portrait of Ivar von Lucken, each finger of the distressed hand seems to have an agony all its own.
Dieter Appelt extends ...
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