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Chalk Cliffs

Summary/Abstract: The chalk cliffs on Rügen were introduced into (the) history (of art) by a famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich. The contrast of this topos and a less well-known dramatic World War II episode (the evacuation by sea of the inmates of the Stutthof concentration camp) becomes a point of departure for reflections on “the phenomenon of memory” in contemporary art, the tangle of private and group memory, the question of travelling (“going on a pilgrimage”) to places associated with concrete artists and their works, and, finally, the essence of perception of the sort experienced by the historian of art.

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