Name: André Butzer, Friedrich Hölderlin. Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons
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André Butzer, Friedrich Hölderlin. Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons

English Language ｜Hardcover ｜ 2025｜204 pages ｜33×24 cm

Publisher　 TASCHEN
Author 　 Friedrich Hölderlin (Author), André Butzer (Illustrator)
ISBN 　 9783754400159

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Hölderlin · Butzer: The Four Seasons of Poetry and Painting is an artist’s book that unites poetry and painting into a single creative dialogue. German contemporary artist André Butzer has selected forty-seven poems by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1793–1843) and responded to them with forty original watercolors, creating a profound encounter that transcends two centuries.

Butzer regards Hölderlin as one of the most important figures in his life—alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse. Coincidentally, the day of Hölderlin’s death is also Butzer’s birthday. In 2001, when Butzer moved to Los Angeles—the city of his youthful dreams—he unexpectedly felt homesick. Reading Hölderlin’s Hyperion, he was deeply moved: “I felt as if I were reading my own words.” From this resonance emerged The Wanderer, a symbolic figure of displacement and belonging, embodying Butzer’s belief that painting is his true home.

For Hölderlin, poetry is the foundation that allows human beings to dwell upon the earth; for Butzer, painting fulfills that same role. In poetry, he finds comfort, and through painting, he seeks to reconcile the contradictions of existence. The book mirrors the cyclical passage of the seasons—spring’s awakening, summer’s fullness, autumn’s maturity, and winter’s stillness—while the gentle hues of Butzer’s watercolors echo the rhythm of Hölderlin’s verse, reflecting the cycle of life and the evolution of the soul.

Butzer’s recurring characters—the Wanderer, the Woman, and Peace-Siemens—appear and fade throughout the pages. Every brushstroke and color patch stands alone yet interconnects, forming fragile harmonies from tension and contrast. The poems and paintings are not arranged chronologically or seasonally but rather intuitively, echoing Hölderlin’s sense of “poetic time,” where past and future merge into an eternal present.

Hölderlin · Butzer: The Four Seasons of Poetry and Painting is a poetic journey of longing and belonging. In words and colors, it explores how humans might find a spiritual home within the world—where art once again becomes the most humble and poetic form of existence.

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Author: Friedrich Hölderlin

Illustrator: André Butzer

Publisher: TASCHEN

Format: Hardcover

Size: 33 × 24 cm

Pages: 204 pages