In a workshop on December 6, , Winfried Muthesius taught ten young artists the technique of pittura oscura. They were students of Prof. The so-called Habima scandal was chosen as the historical point of reference. It illustrates the more than year history of the City in pictures in the council hall. Afterwards Winfried Muthesius explained the technique pittura oscura developed by him, presented the artistic procedure, backgrounds, creation process and examples and worked out the possibilities of this technique with the students.
More about Habima, see below: What had happened back then? We walked. In doing so, they inevitably thought of the burden that Jewish people had to carry in the Third Reich and what had happened to them even years before in the so-called Habima scandal right here on this path. Around the theater in November , many people, including many students, who were ready to use violence, gathered to prevent the Jewish theater troupe Habima from Russia from performing their play.
More than a thousand radical demonstrators frightened the mainly Jewish theater-goers, who did not leave the theater any time soon. There were numerous brutal attacks, injuries, persecutions. Fear was stoked. Several Jewish theater-goers were severely maltreated by the mob.
Christine Kolbet wrote in German in judentum. Today, the Mainfrankentheater is located on this site. The students placed the skull image, whose origin was the real skull of a person who had fallen victim to a pogrom in the Middle Ages, in the middle of the Theater's entrance door. The workshop participants now photographed the scene from various perspectives.
Detail shots with a narrow view and wide-angle perspectives, close-ups and long shots - everything was tried out. The goal was to finally select one shot that - after further processing - was best able to depict the perspective that made sense to the artists for describing their future perspective. Using pictorial techniques, colorful or black and white, scratched and creased, torn and reassembled - there was no limit to creativity.
