Michelangelo Nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022

Our warmest congratulations to Cluster Co-Director Horst Bredekamp whose biography of Michelangelo was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022 in the category »Non-Fiction/Essayistic«. 15 authors and their works have been nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022, therefore 5 in the category »Non-Fiction /Essayistic«.

In »Michelangelo«, Bredekamp takes a look at his life from the point of view of the work and understands the œuvre as a stimulus for the vita. As sensitively as precisely, he examines each individual work of art by Michelangelo's hand in the context of contemporary history and art history, as well as within the development of the artist. The monumental comprehensive account of the artistic genius Michelangelo published by Klaus Wagenbach, and the magnificent volume with almost 900 illustrations on almost as many pages is already entering its 2nd edition.

The basic question of the book goes together with the aim of »Matters of Activity« and its predecessor Cluster »Bild Wissen Gestaltung« to open up the dynamics in the sense of panempathic resonance between the inner drive of seemingly dead substances and the interplay between hand and thought power.

On Saturday, March 12th, 11:05 a.m., the nominees and their books were presented by Andrea Gerk and Christian Rabhansl in the program Lesart on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

To Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022

To the publisher's page

Selected reviews: FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and NDR Kultur.