Thomas Schütte, Watercolors for Robert Walser and Donald Young, 2011-2012

The book is dedicated by the artist to gallerist Donald Young, who invited Schütte to participate in an exhibition dedicated to Walser in Chicago in 2012. Walser’s poems have been exhibited as artworks in the past, and the poet was fascinated by watercolors and the particular effect they have on the human eye. With these watercolors, Schütte not only has given us an extraordinary and moving selection of his own artwork but has paid tribute to Walser, who is one of his heroes.

Text in English and German.