When it “becomes rare for a monument to be erected” (Penny 1981, Mourning), there is truly little prospect of reconciliation with the past. The commemoration of a person’s portrait has certainly undergone significant evolution, even being forgotten or abolished at times, when the frontal view was reserved [only] for one person. But now it is about the integrity of art, which one might call ‘Neue Empfindsamkeit’. Thinking becomes sculpture. Looking into Leni Riefenstahl’s eyes, you couldn’t know that she was ‘never invited to Schwanenwerder.’ To process such motives for myself, I need a transparent view into the past.

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