5 Quotes & Sayings By Friedrich Reckmalleczewen

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen (8 October 1858 – 28 December 1939) was a Baltic German painter and printmaker associated with the German expressionist movement. He was a member of the Berlin artist group Die Brücke. His early work, including The Starry Night, was influenced by Impressionism and Naturalism. Over time, his style changed to a more abstract expressionist style, which he continued to develop over the course of his life Read more

In 1922, he moved from Berlin to Dresden, where he lived until his death in 1939.

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I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into the depths. When I let this hate free, I am almost overcome by it, but I cannot change this and do not really know how it could be otherwise. Let no one deprecate this, nor fool himself about the power of such hatred. Hate drives to reality. Hate is the father of the action. The way out of our defiled and desecrated house is through the command to hate Satan. Only so will be earn the right to search in the darkness for the way of love. In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers. Friedrich ReckMalleczewen
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I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the station, and which was hardly built with such loads in mind, sat a massive figure who appeared even more enormous by virtue of the thick overcoat he wore. Everything about him had the effect of extraordinary permanence and solidity: the deep bass voice; the tweed jacket, already, at that time, almost habitual; the appetite at dinner; and at night, the truly Cyclopean snoring, loud as a series of buzz saws, which frightened the other guests at my Chiemgau country house out of their peaceful slumbers. Friedrich ReckMalleczewen
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Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind Friedrich ReckMalleczewen
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My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters. Friedrich ReckMalleczewen