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WORK CYCLES<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0CREDO<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

About the creation of the Credo cycle<\/strong>, the artist Andreas Felger says:<\/p>\n

“A constant in my artistic work is the preoccupation with biblical themes. For five decades now I have been dealing, among many other things, again and again with central themes and prayers of the Christian and Jewish faith. For me, the Bible is a book of profound wisdom, in which the joys and pains of human existence, the drama and beauties of life are portrayed in all their facets. Therefore, it is for me an inexhaustible source of knowledge, the richness of which inspires and challenges me to this day.”

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Many of these controversies have found expression primarily in woodcut, watercolor, relief, and also stained glass. In the woodcut cycles, for example, “You are Abraham,” “Kohelet,” “The High Songs of Love,” “I Am Words of Jesus” and “Emmaus”; in watercolor, the cycles “Our Father” and “Stations of the Cross.” In addition, there are works such as the nine three-dimensional colored wood reliefs in the Christ Pavilion, the former EXPO 2000 church in the Volkenroda monastery (Thuringia).<\/p>\n

For the Credo, this great and central prayer of Christianity, I deliberately chose oil painting. The theme required internal as well as external conditions, which allow a stronger dissolution than possible in woodcut, watercolor, relief or stained glass. These techniques did not come into consideration for me for the Credo, because they require much more of a planned and targeted approach and leave less room for spontaneous expression. Oil painting is different. Here I can lose myself in large formats and approach pictorial solutions, discard them, paint over them, correct them. Here the path is exciting for me, which is guided by my intuition. I wanted the process of inner and outer search, the struggle for shape and form to become visible in the picture, especially with this theme.<\/p>\n

The Credo cycle represents a novelty in my oeuvre because it is the first time I have dealt with a central theme of Christianity in oil.”<\/p>\n

The Credo Cycle is the starting point and basis for the series of events called the Credo Project, which uniquely combines text, images, and music. Further information can be found at here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andreas Felger has created various groups of works and cycles that form thematic units. In the spirit of traveling exhibitions, they can be borrowed from the foundation’s holdings upon request<\/a>.
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