English edition
Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration the philosopher enjoyed for her own ends and installed the Nietzsche Archive in the building. Initially very popular amongst Europe's avant-garde later Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche allowed the archive to be instrumentalized by the National Socialists before it became a taboo topic in the GDR. Featuring many colored illustrations, the book relates the turbulent history of a memorial that reflects the ambivalence of modernism.
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| ISBN: | 9783422987166 |
| Publication date: | 9th November 2023 |
| Author: | Klassik Stiftung Weimar |
| Publisher: | Deutscher Kunstverlag an imprint of De Gruyter |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Im Fokus |
| Genres: |
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Places and peoples: general and pictorial works |