Fidus (Luebeck 1868-1948 Woltersdorf bei Berlin), also known as Hugo Hoeppener
"Der Tempel der Erde" ("The Temple of Earth")
1895 and 1901
ink on cardboard
42,8 x 50,9 cm
inscribed, signed, and dated upper right: "Der Tempel der Erde," "Fidus," "1895 u 1901"
Provenance:
Exhibitions:
"Monte Verità, Berg der Wahrheit," Akademie de Künste, Berlin, 1979
Publication History:
1918 Max Hayek, "Fidus. Zum 50. Geburtstag des Künstlers," Reclams Universum. Illustrierte Wochenschrift (Leipzig, 1918), Heft 1, pgs. 5-8, ill. at pg. 6.
1921 Junge Menschen, 2. Jahrgang, Heft 6, Ende März 1921, illustrated at pg. 86.
1925 Arno Rentsch, Fiduswerk (Dresden: Verlag der Schönheit, 1925), pg. 124, Ill. 140.
1980 Harold Szeemann, et al., Monte Verità, Berg der Wahrheit (Locarno: Armando Dadò, 1978-1980; Milan: Electra Editrice, 1978-1980), ill. pg. 92.
1995 Jost Hermand, Avantgarde und Regression: 200 Jahre deutsche Kunst (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 2001), illustrated at pg. 83.
2001 Kai Buchholz, et al., eds., Die Lebensreform: Entwürfe zur Neugestaltung von Leben und Kunst um 1900 (Darmstadt: Verlag Häusser, 2001) (Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt exhibition catalogue), Band II, ill. at pg. 85 (Kat. 2.20).
2009 Michael Buhrs, ed., Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913) Lieber sterben, als meine Ideale verleugnen! (Munich: Museum Villa Stuck and Edition Minerva, 2009), pg. 208, ill. 169.
2017 Massimo Introvigne, "Fidus (1868-1948)," Aries, Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 215-242, illustrated at pg. 229, Fig, 7 (as "Project for a Temple of the Earth").
