{"id":79182,"date":"2025-04-16T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/?page_id=79182"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:31:43","slug":"patricia-vester-wenzel-hollar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/revisions\/patricia-vester-wenzel-hollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Vester: Wenzel Hollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Patricia Vester: re*vision of Wenceslas Hollar: Portrait of a young Black boy in three-quarter profile*, 1645<\/h2> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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In the following text, \u201ckratz ritz ratz<\/em>\u201d and \u201cwisch<\/em>\u201d and any variations of these words are used as a written representation of a sound.<\/p>\n

1645
\nTime of day unknown
\nThe season too
\nPlace uncertain
\nSpace unknown<\/p>\n

\u201cTurn sideways, let me see your profile!
\nSit still! kratz ritz kratz
\n<\/em>On a hand-sized
\ncopper-red metal wish kratz
\n<\/em>the other holds a needle with style.
\nI scrape, scratch, <\/em>everywhere\u2026
\nyou better not flee\u2026
\nkratz kratz
\n<\/em>This takes time!
\nDo you understand me?<\/p>\n

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First I look… kratz ritz kratz
\n<\/em>Then I scratch<\/em>…
\nwhat I see \u2013 no, what I want to see!
\ninto the metal ritz ritz kratz
\n<\/em>in my style.
\nTilt your head back a bit!
\nI’ll push it myself \u2013
\nHold still!
\nkratz ratz kratz<\/em><\/p>\n

I etch blacken roll
\nprint it on paper too
\nkratz ritz ratz
\n<\/em>and then maybe I’ll show you, you.<\/p>\n

Being, mouse, man and beast
\nheeded as a feast,
\nlandscapes, marvelous Genesis
\ncalendar pages, animal nemeses,
\nlords of rank and kings so genty,
\nelegant ladies ritz ratz<\/em> plenty,
\nLondon, Covent Garden, the Piazza
\nSite plans, squares and Grazia.<\/p>\n

An elephant\u2019s tamer upright, never leaning,
\nbiblical images, Englishmen convening,
\ngentlemen, all obviously making meaning,
\nanother one two three buttons ritz ritz<\/em>, and that\u2019s it,
\nnot like my distorted heads that I once…anyway let\u2019s move on a bit…
\nhow interesting your skin,
\nhow tightly coiled your hair,<\/p>\n

ratz ritz | ritz ritz ratz | ritz ritz ritz ritz ritz
\n<\/em>your lips ritz ritz<\/em> so strange…
\nThis is how you look into space, ratz kratz
\n<\/em>You\u2019re not enjoying your place?
\nSit still!<\/p>\n

I want to draw you,
\nconsider it an honor! ritz ritz ritz
\n<\/em>This is the hard part: The white collar.
\nIt brings forth a strong contrast ratz ratz ritz
\n<\/em>whether it really exists or not.
\nI decide on my own ratz ratz ritz
\n<\/em>\u2013alone \u2013 what remains undefined.<\/p>\n

I saw under the collar elsewhere
\nritz ritz ritz
\n<\/em>a ring sticking out in the air.
\nHa… and worn by an object.
\nritz ritz schlitz
\n<\/em>Who is the owner?
\nSoon you can leave too\u2026
\nI already have two of you…
\nand an older one… there was so much anger in his face…
\nDon’t move from your place!<\/p>\n

Whose son are you? ratz ritz kratz
\n<\/em>Maybe I’ll add the mother or sister too…
\nThen later, the N-word of my title will trouble you anew,
\nit is replaced ritz ritz<\/em>,
\nchanged from “boy,” to “young man” ritz ritz ritz<\/em>,
\nand historians, all men,
\nwill write \u201cchild.\u201d
\nYou probably think I\u2019m stone-blind,
\nbecause I don’t see you in your time
\nritz ritz<\/em><\/p>\n

The wind of your paths,
\nthat which truly surrounds you, ratz ratz kratz
\n<\/em>whether there is sorrow
\nor sadness\u2026
\nit’s quiet here… kratz ritz kratz<\/em>.
\nNo one is interested in you!
\nBut with this ritz ritz
\n<\/em>You\u2019ll survive ritz ratz
\n<\/em>me too…
\n…on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artist\u2019s name
\nWenceslas Hollar
\n1607-1677<\/p>\n

Child\u2019s name
\nName is unknown
\nBiographical data is also unknown<\/p>\n

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Translated by: Melody Makeda Ledwon<\/p>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Patricia Vester<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Illustration | Writing | Intervention | Process Facilitation | Anti-racist Art Education<\/p>\n

Audio statement by Patricia Vester on Wenceslas Hollar: Portrait of a young Black boy in three-quarter profile*, 1645 supported by the \u2018Weiterkommen!\u2019 programme of Zentrum f\u00fcr Kulturelle Teilhabe Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/p>\n

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*About the original title & trigger warning:<\/p>\n

The original title of the work according to the catalogue of paintings and its 2020 revision use discriminatory terms that the museum does not wish to reproduce.<\/p>\n

Old title “Junger N****kopf\u201c changed on 3.12.2020. Old title “Brustbild eines dunkelh\u00e4utigen Mannes” changed in September 2024.<\/p>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":79261,"parent":79223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79182","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79874,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79182\/revisions\/79874"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}