Werner
Horvath: "Friedrich Nietzsche - the Three Metamorphoses".
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm.
"Of the three metamorphoses of the spirit I
tell you: how the spirit becomes a
camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child."
This
painting was the official image for the programme and the
poster of the international congress "Nietzsche y la hermeneutica",
held at the University of Valencia from Nov.5th to Nov.7th, 2007. It is
also
placed at the cover of the book "Nietzsche y la hermeneutica" by
Francisco Arenas-Dolz, Luca Giancristofaro and Paolo Stellino (ISBN13:
978-84-7642-744-8).This painting was also
published
in the magazine "Educação", ISSN 1415-5486,
special
edition on Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Editora Segmento, in
São Paulo, Brazil, 2007.
This painting is also piblished in "The Hedgehog Review - Critical
Reflections on Contemporary Culture"
Volume 17, Number 3, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,
University of Virginia, in an article by Matthew Scherer: "Nietzshe's
Smile". ISSN 1527-867X, Charlottesville 2015. The
picture illustrates the article "Strange
Freedom: Religion and the Play of Imaginaries" of Laurens ten Kate in
the open-access-Journal LIMINA of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of
the University Graz entitled "Das Phantom der
Frteiheit", edited by Isabella Guanzini and Reinhold Esterbauer, 2019.
The painting will be publoshed in Serie
Filosofia, authors:
Ana Paula Alves Aguiar, Rafael Saldanha, Rodrigo Gomes
Figueiredo, ISBN:
9786559231591, Sao Paulo, Brazil..
This Nietzsche-portrait is also the cover image of the book "Der
Jäger Gottes - Also sprachZarathustra" by Martin Schneider,
Verlag J.H.Röll, Dettelbach (Germany), 2023. ISBN:
978-3-89754-643-1.