Tag Archives | Peter H. Feist

  • “Our Difficult, Beautiful Subject”

    “Our difficult, beautiful subject”: Peter H. Feist’s Marxist method

    Originally published: Selva on June 2024 by Tamara Golan and Felix Jäger (more by Selva) (Posted Jul 03, 2024)

    In a striking photograph, Otto Karl Werckmeister captured Peter H. Feist—widely regarded as the leading art historian of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)—at the sculpture garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin. Feist, dressed in a sharp blue suit, fixes his attentive gaze on the viewer, holding his camera poised at the ready.