A bilingual catalogue (English and German) published in London by the Whitechapel Art Gallery on the occasion, in 1980 of the exhibition Bild Dichtungen, or “poetry through images.” The show was a traveling exhibition jointly curated by four museums—London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Hamburg Kunstverein, Kunstmuseum Luzern, and the Kulturhaus of the City of Graz; the catalogue texts were
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en by Nicholas Serota, who at the time was the Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, and the critic Arnulf Meifert. The venue of the exhibition that took place at Kunstmuseum Luzern included the presentation not only of this catalogue, but also of an artist’s book, drawn in pencil, in black and white, that contained a story entitled Der Altemann der Wälder (“The Old Man of the Woods”) that the artist wrote and illustrated specifically for Kunstmuseum Luzern. Günter Brus was renowned at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s for highly provocative performances, and his activities were in fact prohibited for a considerable number of years in his native Austria. This exhibition, promoted by several museums, newly brought to light some hundreds of the artist’s drawings, some of quite large format, colored by pencil and completed with original texts by Brus himself.
