Marjolijn van den Assem
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Synopsis Seelenbriefe 2007
SEELENBRIEFE
(”Soulful letter”, as Nietzsche called one he received from Marie Baumgartner)
Marjolijn van den Assem
Co-authors:
Drs. Jisca Bijlsma (director Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Paul van Tongeren (leader of the Nietzsche Research Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Marianne Vermeijden (editor of NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands)
Tom van As (dance design/ visual artist)
Rob Smolders (art critic/director of Museum de Wieger, Deurne, The Netherlands)
Translations (from Dutch):
Laura Martz (English)
Kordelia Nitsch (German)
Editor: TAB Timmer Art Books, Oosterhout, The Netherlands, 2007
€29,50
www.timmerartbooks.nl
ISBN 978-90-810139-3-2
SEELENBRIEFE visualizes the complex friendship in a crucial period in the lives of Marie Baumgartner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Marie Baumgartner was the mother of Nietzsches most talented pupil in Basel. A correspondence arose between them. After Marie, who was bilingual, offered to translate Nietzsche’s work into French, he shared more and more of his mental world with her. Her letters evidence a strong intellectual impulse, affection, fellowship, recklessness and confusion. When Nietzsche set off for Sorrento (Italy) in 1876, Marie stayed behind in Lörrach and continued to work on her translations. In thanks, Nietzsche and his companions picked a bouquet of wildflowers on their daily walk in the hills and sent it to Marie.
Her whole house smelled of Italy, she wrote, and made her “long to be among kindred spirits”. By re-writing Marie’s letters Marjolijn van den Assem made them her own. By picking a similar wildflower bouquet in the same place, on the same day but 125 years later, the artist let the flowers tell their story. By drawing, painting, cutting, stapling and folding sheet steel (sculptures) around herself, she became part of the Baumgartner/Nietzsche-relationship and could report from the inside.
About the author:
Marjolijn van den Assem (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1947) is a respected and well known Dutch artist. Her work (drawings, paintings, sculptures) is represented in 10 Dutch Museums of Modern Art and in public- and private collections. Since 1979 she is inspired by the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, what others have written about it and by the places where Nietzsche stayed.
zie: Marie Baumgartner
zie: Seelenbriefe
Also available at TAB Timmer Art Books
Sgelare 2010 Marjolijn van den Assem:
Also available at TAB Timmer Art Books:
Sgelare 2010 by Marjolijn van den Assem
Sgelare: hardcover, genaaid gebonden
TAB Timmer Art Books
36 pagina’s 750 stuks
ISBN 978-90-807206-5-7
Euro 15,00
Eine verschneite Seele, der ein Thauwind zuredet…
(the wind that thaws ice and snow, tenderly convincing a frozen soul to melt)
I found these poetical lines in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Nachgelassene Fragmente from 1888.
Nietzsche thought that being amidst the eternal snow in Sils-Maria during the summer, opposed to being affected by the influence of the Mediterranean culture of Genova during the winter, had made his thinking more passionate.
Because he felt like his body and spirit were thawed by the South, he called his style of writing in Genova: “the language of the wind that thaws ice and snow”. It became a hymn to life, a song of praise to the Mediterranean way of living, just as colourful as the South itself.
Nietzsche described the language of the wind that thaws ice and snow like this:
“Is it any wonder that in the process much that is unreasonable and foolish comes to light, much playful tenderness that is lavished even on problems that have a prickly hide and are not made to be caressed and enticed?”
Which is a great example of his lean and powerful way of thinking, of his dancing mind.
By following Nietzsche’s footsteps in Genova and in Sils-Maria, not only imaginary but also literally, I have tried to experience the language that thaws ice and snow.
During my trips I stumbled upon two completely different waterfalls, which I have embraced.
In addition to The Seelenbriefe-project, which took me 7 years to complete, I now present a selection of drawings, paintings and paper sculptures, expressing the first part of my personal encounter with the wind that thaws ice and snow.
This book offers a glimpse of the works created between 2007 and 2010.
Sgelare = the process of thawing:
* a period of warm weather during which ice and snow melt.
* a relaxation of reserve, restraints, or tensions.
zie: De taal van de dooiwind
zie: Rasch (Sgelare)
zie: Jenseits des Nordens
29 comments
[...] en ik aan een kant-achtig-uitgesneden beeld van vier opgestapelde bloemen van de via campagnano (zie Seelenbriefe) dat we sterk gaan vergroten. Een grote investering, in geld en energie, opmaat voor een [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » beeld in wording…, on August 5th, 2008, às 2:59 pm. #.
[...] uitgever van mijn Seelenbriefe-boek is Hans Timmer van Uitgeverij TAB, Timmer Art Books uit Oosterhout. Achter deze mededeling [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » SEELENBRIEFE, on August 9th, 2008, às 8:21 am. #.
[...] he was to romance, and he did establish two friendships with older women in the mid 1870’s. Marie Baumgartner, the mother of one of his students, and the vaguely Wagnerian cosmopolite Malwida von Meysenbug, [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Young Nietzsche, on August 17th, 2008, às 12:11 pm. #.
[...] philosophischen Stimmung, das gilt aber für alle Orterlebnisse Nietzsches, nur dass ihre Funktion jeweils eine andere war. (Nietzsche mit Goethe in Italien. Mazzino [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Abbild, on September 2nd, 2008, às 3:13 pm. #.
[...] seit Jahren intensiv mit Friedrich Nietzsche. Im Jahre 2007 erschien von ihr das Kunstbuch “Seelenbriefe” (Oosterhout 2007 – TAB / timmer art books). Es thematisiert das Verhältnis Friedrich [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Stifter, on September 15th, 2008, às 2:07 pm. #.
[...] nog een uitspraak bij van ADOLF BAUMGARTNER, die ten tijde van Nietzsches vroege tijd in Bazel diens lievelingsleerling was geweest, maar zich spoedig van hem had vervreemd. Baumgartner, inmiddels hoogleraar oude [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » nog steeds…, on September 23rd, 2008, às 1:18 pm. #.
[...] een “proefbeeld” van 1/4de deel van het totale beeld. De papieren Datura (uit: Seelenbriefe) wordt gescand, vergroot, uit plaatstaal gesneden en vervormd, dan geschoepeerd en gepoedercoat en [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » ProefBeeld, on September 26th, 2008, às 11:21 am. #.
[...] via campagnano (1) 2002 potlood op papier 46×30cm. zie: Seelenbriefe [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Atelierbezoek (1), on September 29th, 2008, às 9:13 pm. #.
[...] zie: Seelenbriefe [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Ur-Ur-Grossmutter Marie B., on January 6th, 2009, às 2:52 pm. #.
[...] Terrasse 2004 acryl/o.i.inkt/nietjes op papier 43×35×12cm Uit: Seelenbriefe collectie: NOG Collectie van het SNS REAAL [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Zielsklimaat, on January 12th, 2009, às 11:01 am. #.
[...] nieuw vier-delig wandbeeld (140×85×45cm.). Vier gevouwen bloemen uit de via campagnano (zie: Seelenbriefe) zullen op elkaar worden gestapeld aan een grote naald in de muur. Omdat 2 mm. plaatstaal, zoals we [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Nieuw Beeld, on January 18th, 2009, às 2:06 pm. #.
[...] Marie Baumgartner stelde Nietzsche voor om zijn werk in het frans te vertalen, daartoe spraken zij elkaar wekelijks, daarnaast correspondeerden zij. Het was een wederzijds bevruchtende vriendschap en daarom het uitgangspunt voor mijn Seelenbriefe-project en Seelenbriefe-boek. [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Marie Baumgartner, on February 9th, 2009, às 3:08 pm. #.
[...] Marie Baumgartner stelde Nietzsche voor om zijn werk in het frans te vertalen, daartoe spraken zij elkaar wekelijks, daarnaast correspondeerden zij. Het was een wederzijds bevruchtende vriendschap en daarom het uitgangspunt voor mijn Seelenbriefe-project en Seelenbriefe-boek. [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Marie Baumgartner (2), on April 1st, 2009, às 10:08 am. #.
[...] Marie Baumgartner (1831-1897)* (the picture is kindly provided to me by his great-grandson). From: Seelenbriefe* Publisher: TAB, Oosterhout. Book: Seelenbriefe by Marjolijn van den [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Marie Baumgartner (3), on April 2nd, 2009, às 9:46 pm. #.
[...] Wim Boevink in het artikel “ter aarde varen” in het dagblad Trouw van 22 mei 2009, over SEELENBRIEFE, door uitgeverij TAB, Timmer Art Books, tentoongesteld bij Galerie W139, [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Trouw, on May 22nd, 2009, às 9:14 pm. #.
[...] Hendrik Kerstens * Artists and visitors * Speech by Hugo Ariz, ArtBreak gallery. * Presenting my Seelenbriefe-book to mr. Gajus Scheltema, Consul General of the Netherlands in NY. * [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » 5 Dutch Days celebration, on November 21st, 2009, às 8:20 pm. #.
[...] dit projekt zal -net als mijn Seelenbriefe projekt- uiteindelijk tot een conclusie komen en tot een boek leiden, maar ik heb nog een lange weg [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Dooiwind, on March 22nd, 2010, às 11:40 am. #.
[...] same excellent printing office in Germany that printed my book “Seelenbriefe” in 2007, now did my new book “Sgelare”. I can recommend Rasch Drückerei und [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Rasch: Sgelare, on May 19th, 2010, às 10:18 am. #.
[...] zie: Seelenbriefe zie: Dooiwind zie: Sgelare zie: The process of thawing « Behind the waterfall… [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » New!/Nieuw!, on May 26th, 2010, às 9:20 am. #.
[...] Araceae-familieleden inspireerden eerder tot werken uit de Incorporare-serie, van het project Seelenbriefe 2000-2007 (uitgegeven bij TAB Timmer Art [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » flowering, on October 11th, 2010, às 9:50 am. #.
[...] Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum zie: Seelenbriefe & Sgelare zie: Running around in circles zie: The Nietzsche Haus/Museum, Sils-Maria zie: Das heutige [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Edgar Knobloch, on November 15th, 2010, às 11:21 am. #.
[...] via campagnano (132) 2004 potlood op papier 184 x 122 cm. collection: Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdam [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » collections (26), on January 27th, 2011, às 12:18 pm. #.
[...] via campagnano (41,42,43) 2003 (detail) potlood/o.i.inkt/insnijdingen op papier (3-delig) 122×92cm elk Verzameling de Bruin-Heijn (zie ook: Anchoring Abroad) [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » collections (28), on March 8th, 2011, às 9:39 am. #.
[...] I proudly announce the exhibition of a selection of my “Seelenbriefe” & Sgelare-work at the new Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum Naumburg, Deutschland, [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum!, on June 25th, 2011, às 9:59 am. #.
[...] op papier 122×70×7cm. Dit werk zal binnenkort te zien zijn op de tentoonstelling: “Seelenbriefe” van 09-09-2011/09-08-2012 in het Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum Naumburg. curator: Jisca [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » denkbaar/imaginable, on July 15th, 2011, às 10:46 am. #.
[...] Knobloch zie: Marie Baumgartner (1) zie: Marie Baumgartner (2) zie: Marie Baumgartner (3) zie: Seelenbriefe « Travelogue(3) 2011 Mountain/Walk/Drawing [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum(1), on July 23rd, 2011, às 12:23 pm. #.
[...] & Nietzsche Congres, waarvan de opening van mijn tentoonstelling een apart onderdeel is: “Seelenbriefe” wordt op 9 september 2011 20.00 uur geopend door Paul van Tongeren, De titel van zijn [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum(3), on August 17th, 2011, às 1:08 pm. #.
[...] for the “Seelenbriefe” (soulful letters)-exhibition at the Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum Naumburg. [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum(5), on September 3rd, 2011, às 9:14 am. #.
[...] vielen Jahren ein wichtiger Sparringpartner in meinem Atelier. Sie berichtete darüber in meinem Seelenbriefe-Buch und ihr Text wurde zum Ausgangspunkt für die Ausstellung. Er ist auf dem Plakat des [...]
Posted by Marjolijn van den Assem » SEELENBRIEFE: Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum(8), on September 13th, 2011, às 4:43 pm. #.
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