Thomas
Häfner (1928 - 1985) was a realistic and
fantastic art painter. Häfner was a member of a group of German artists who
called themselves the Young Realists, formed in Düsseldorf in the mid-Fifties.
Escaping
the horrors of the Second World War, he live for a decade in Ceylon (1938–1948). He studied at
the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Detail from his painting "Lucifer"
is used to illustrate the novel "Moravagine" by Blaise Cendrars. Wikipedia
…I find nothing fantastic in so-called
fantastic art, it is an aspect of reality in search of sanity beyond the normal
bounds. I believe that fantastic art is related to the protective dream, that
it prolongs the healing dream and finds symbols that change dread into wonder,
strangeness and beauty.
As in all figurative art, fantastic art
must of course be judged not only by its intentions but by the quality of the
execution, and by standards that have been almost totally lost in the
turbulence of changing fashions, movements and politics on the art market. This
has led to a noticeable helplessness among the critics, who seem to ignore a
growing tendency toward the fantastic in the hope that it will fade away and
die. I do not believe it will." Thomas Häfner
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