Egon Altdorf: Into the Light

Dr Judith LeGrove is a writer and curator who has worked extensively with sculptors and their archives. Recent publications include The Sculpture of Michael Lyons (2013), Geoffrey Clarke: a sculptor’s materials (2017), Geoffrey Clarke: catalogue raisonné (2017), and Kenneth Draper: On the Edge of Sculpture (2023). Professor Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. His many books include Cities of God (2000), Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2004), Christ and Culture (2005), Unbelievable (2014) and Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II (2022). Dr Deborah Lewer is a specialist in modern German art and also works in the field of the intersection between art and religious faith. She has published widely on modern art, culture and politics in Germany and Switzerland, is a senior lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow. Dr Dorothea Schöne studied art history, political science, sociology and philosophy at Leipzig University. She was a Fulbright exchange student at the University of California, Riverside (2005–6), later assisting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (touring, Nuremberg and Berlin, 2010). In 2014 she became director and chief curator of Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin. Her publications focus especially on mid-20th century German art. Dr Julia Kelly is a writer and researcher on modern and contemporary art with interests and expertise in the histories and theories of sculpture, interactions between art and anthropology, art writing, and the legacies of surrealism. She is Course Director at Leeds Beckett University.

• Graham Ward: Introduction1  Judith LeGrove  Egon Altdorf: The lines of life2  Deborah Lewer  The prodigal and the prophecy: Egon Altdorf’s woodcuts and German art debates, c.1948–523  Dorothea Schöne  Change and (re)reflection in the sculptural work of Egon Altdorf after 19454  Judith LeGrove  A vital Conversation: Egon Altdorf and British sculpture in the early post-war years5  Julia Kelly  Symbolism of the cosmos in Egon Altdorf’s post-war sculpture6  Elaine Morley  Egon Altdorf and the transformative power of art: the postwar literary context7  Nicolette David  Beyond language: the relationship between art and poetry in Egon Altdorf’s work8  David Jasper The art of Egon Altdorf: symbolism and spirituality9  Ulrich Knufinke  Wiesbaden’s new synagogue (1966) and its design by Egon Altdorf10  Judith LeGrove  Into the light: Egon Altdorf’s memorials to the futureArie Hartog  Epilogue