Jeannette Fischer Bücher

Wolfgang Beltracchi ist eine Ausnahmeerscheinung der internationalen Kunstwelt und untrennbar mit einer der größten Erschütterungen des globalen Kunstmarktes verbunden. Er entwickelte und malte neue Bilder in der Handschrift zahlreicher weltbekannter Künstler, setzte deren gefälschte Signatur darunter und seine Ehefrau Helene Beltracchi schleuste die Werke in den Kunstmarkt. Viele Experten wurden von Beltracchis handwerklichem Können getäuscht, während Auktionshäuser in einem unersättlichen Marktumfeld Zweifel beiseite schoben und die Gemälde als authentische Werke verkauften. Die Fähigkeit, die künstlerische Handschrift eines Malers zu lesen, erfordert außergewöhnliches Einfühlungsvermögen, bis man "das Empfinden des anderen empfinden" kann, so Beltracchi. In ausführlichen Gesprächen mit dem Maler und seiner Gattin hat die Psychoanalytikerin Jeannette Fischer diese Fähigkeit bei Beltracchi untersucht. In ihrem neuen Buch stellt sie diese in Verbindung mit dem Verschwinden von Beltracchis eigener Signatur. Wie in ihrem früheren erfolgreichen Buch über Marina Abramović schafft Jeannette Fischer ein äußerst einsichtsreiches Porträt einer faszinierenden Künstlerpersönlichkeit.

In summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramović and psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramović’s house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a psychoanalytical perspective for a lengthy exploration of Abramović’s biography and art and their interrelation. Abramović went into this discussion in hopes of reaching a better understanding of herself, her personality, and her work. Conversations with artists are widely available, she notes, but a chance to use psychoanalysis to put an artist’s life and work in context is much more rare. The resulting book is neither a therapist’s report nor a Fischer’s analysis of Abramović. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramović’s life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischer’s comments on them and images of some of Abramović’s performances that are referred to in the discussion.

Based largely on four days of conversations between the artist and the psychoanalyst, the book includes excerpts from those conversations

The first book about Wolfgang Beltracchi, painter and legendary art forger from a psychoanalytical perspective. Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi's stupendous skill, and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the face of insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works by the purported artists. Reading the artistic handwriting of a painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able to empathize and identify with the artist until you "can feel what the other feels" (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced for Beltracchi. In this new book, she places this capability in relation to the disappearance of Beltracchi's own signature. As with her previous highly successful book about the performance artist Marina Abramovic, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality.