Hermanna Hendricha „Świątynia Legend” oraz „Parsifal i zamek Grala”
Hermann Hendrich's "The Temple of Legends" and "Parsifal and the Castle of the Grail"

Summary/Abstract: Many various records – often enough contradictory, tales and information from secondary sources or just legends, to call them with this word, accumulated around ‘Sagenhalle’ and its author and animator, Hermann Hendrich. This building, which was created hundred-and-five years ago and has not existed for over sixty years, just like its demiurge, evokes greater and greater interest. Hermann Hendrich, the forgotten creator, being rediscovered nowadays, is a declared and consequent symbolist. Inspired with Wagner’s works he is a co-reviver of the world of mythical Celtic and Old German heroes. The painter was bound up with the Karkonosze Mountains and Lower Silesia through art, the course of his life and eventually his suicide. He was either praised highly, or totally neglected by the contemporary critics; in the recent years he met an extraordinary almost a century late, appreciation. The young generations’ perception of his art is astonishing and that can be judged by the web pages devoted to alternative music inspired by his painting and by the outstanding repositories of mythology and art created by him. The artist’s fascination with Wagner’s work brought the canvas, which undoubtedly were supposed to affect not only the sense of sight, but also the sense of hearing. This looped synesthesia is something unusual: there is an artist who, basing on musical and pictorial impulses of genius, creates distressing in their expression, pictorial-musical visions, which give back the gathered intellectual potential to the authors of a new music formula a few generations later. Hermann Hendrich’s the only recovered up to now painting is Percival and Grail Castle, which had decorated the no longer existing ‘Sagenhalle’ in Szklarska Poręba. Now it belongs to one of the private collections in Wrocław.

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