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Shadow Dance
In 1923, on account of his exorbitant lifestyle, the musician and artist Louis Soutter is committed to a Swiss mental institution by his family. Only his famous cousin Le Corbusier stands by him. Soutter's pictures are unsettling and ignored by the art world of his time. Le Corbusier, both disconcerted and fascinated, becomes intertangled with this archaic art and the convoluted life paths that have led Soutter to this point.
256 pages
2021
978-3-257-07109-2
»And the contrast - between order and chaos, between understanding and feeling - that emerges in their conversations is the all-important thread that runs throughout Hartmann's book.«
»With great empathy, Lukas Hartmann succeeds in showing how Louis Soutter created a wonderfully disturbing work out of his ›insuitability for life‹.«
»In an easily comprehendable, accessible way, he gives access to a piece of Swiss art history.«