Himmel & Erde

The book Heaven & Earth is something of a zero number in the Echo series. Here there is not yet a group of equals within which the designs for prints are passed around, but an artist who makes his woodcuts from a wide variety of drawings. This approach opened up a field of tension between the need to do justice to the diversity of the source material and the desire for a certain uniformity in the finished book.

The drawings were created during the first year of painting studies at the HGB, on a study trip to Mecklenburg. The conceptions of what constitutes landscape are as different as the styles themselves.