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Dans un contexte marqué par l’expérience de l’antisémitisme et du totalitarisme, Broch développe une anthropologie de la responsabilité qui dénonce l’individualisme et l’indifférence qui représente à la fois un danger pour l’humanité et pour la démocratie. Broch décrit la crise du monde moderne, mais au-delà de l’analyse, sa réflexion a avant tout une visée pratique. Il met en évidence les dangers et les folies ordinaires de l’humanité dans un monde dénué de sens, d’indifférence à l’autre et il propose une éthique de l’humanité dans laquelle le dialogue avec l’autre, comme avec soi, avec son passé, est la condition d’une conscience responsable. La responsabilité est au cœur de la conscience humaine et du vivre ensemble qui intègre l’autre. Broch prône, en effet, une politique de la responsabilité, tournée vers l’autre et vers l’avenir. L’autre de l’homme est en lui et conduit à un combat intérieur. Un comportement humain relève à la fois du « talent et devoir de l’homme » puisque l’altérité est le risque de l’humanité, la perte même de son humanité. L’autre de chaque homme constitue dès lors la possibilité de la perte de son humanité et de sa chute dans l’animalité – inscrite dans sa nature. Les notions de dialogue et d’altérité sont pluridimensionnelles : au croisement des questions littéraires, historiques, philosophiques, psychologiques, elles présentent l’ensemble de l’œuvre en articulant ses différents volets dans leur polysémie en échappant à une logique binaire, absente de l’œuvre de Broch pour éclairer le projet éthique et politique de l’auteur. / In a context marked by anti-semitism and totalitarianism, Broch develops an anthropology of responsibility that denounces individualism and indifference, both of which represent a danger for humanity and democracy. Broch depicts the crisis of the modern world. However, beyond analysis, his reflections have above all a practical aim. He reveals the common place dangers and follies of humanity in a world deprived of sense and of indifference to others. He proposes a code of ethics in which dialogue with others, as with oneself and one's past, is indispensable for a responsible conscience. Responsibility is at the heart of the human conscience and of the capacity to live together with others. Broch advocates, in fact, an active responsibility that is turned towards others and towards the future. Animal nature is embodied within oneself and leads an internal battle. Human behavior rises out of the “talents and duties of man” because alterity is the risk of humanity, that one could lose one's humanity. The sensitivity towards others, present in every man, therefore constitutes the possibility of losing one's humanity and of descending into animality. This is inscribed in the nature of man. The notions of dialogue and alterity are multidisciplinary : they are at the intersection of literary, historical, philosophical, and psychological questions. They present the whole work of Broch by articulating polysemously different aspects, escaping a binary logic and elucidating his moral and political project.

A pesquisa consiste em aproximações aos Sonâmbulos, de Hermann Broch, e privilegia aspectos históricos e construtivos dessa trilogia composta de Pasenow ou o romantismo, Esch ou a anarquia e Huguenau ou a objetividade. Está dividida em duas partes. Na primeira, predomina a discussão do contexto literário e histórico, do pensamento do autor e de questões teóricas do romance como gênero. Aqui, tomamos a trilogia por um comentário sem igual à crise do romance de seu tempo, as ideias de Broch por uma ética da totalidade, e propomos uma retórica realista e metafísica como recurso-base do texto dos Sonâmbulos. Na segunda parte, prevalecem observações sobre a configuração da narrativa e investimos no jogo das semelhanças e diferenças dos três títulos. O objetivo é organizar um quadro para o entendimento do lugar dos Sonâmbulos e de sua especificidade literária. Impaciência do conhecimento, em Broch, significa poesia apta a se adiantar à ciência, romance capaz de se adiantar à filosofia. / This research is devoted to Herman Brochs trilogy The sleepwalkers. The focus of our interest lies on the historical and constructive aspects of the novels Pasenow the romantic, Esch the anarchist and Huguenau the realist. The study is divided in two parts. The first one contains a discussion on the literary and historical context, on the authors thought and on theoretical questions about the novel as a genre. In our view, the trilogy offers a unique commentary upon the crisis of the novel around 1930. Moreover, we take Brochs ideas as an ethics of totality and we propose a realist and metaphysical rhetoric as a key device of the text of The sleepwalkers. The second part consists of observations on the narrative composition, in which we analyze the dynamics of similarities and differences among the three titles. Our aim is to provide a framework for the understanding of the trilogys literary place and specificity. Impatience of knowledge in Broch means poetry capable of anticipating science, novel being able to anticipate philosophy.

Entre 1894 e 1916, período em que esteve sob a gestão do zoólogo Hermann von Ihering, o Museu Paulista conseguiu reunir coleções de dimensão considerável, que englobavam objetos pertinentes às diferentes disciplinas às quais a instituição se dedicava. Por meio dessas coleções, o Museu pôde produzir e veicular conhecimentos sobre a natureza e o homem sul-americano. Embora intrínsecos à prática da História Natural, a reunião e uso de coleções podem ser problematizados e investigados com algum grau de profundidade, trazendo à tona dimensões insuspeitas da história dos museus e das ciências naturais. Sendo assim, objetiva-se, nesta dissertação, investigar aspectos de processos de aquisição e uso de coleções de História Natural praticados no Museu Paulista de Ihering. Pretende-se, dessa forma, contribuir para a compreensão do que foram a implantação e o desenvolvimento do primeiro museu público do estado de São Paulo. Mais do que isso, almeja-se entender o papel central reservado aos espécimes científicos na produção e veiculação de conhecimentos sobre a natureza sul-americana. Para tanto, examinaremos as principais etapas envolvidas na curadoria das coleções: a aquisição de objetos, sua mobilização para produção de conhecimento e sua exibição no âmbito das exposições públicas / Between 1894 and 1916, the Museu Paulista was under the management of the zoologist Hermann von Ihering. During this period, the museum gathered collections of considerable size, which encompassed objects concerning to different disciplines. Through these collections, the Museum was able to produce and communicate knowledge about the nature and the man of South America. Gather and use collections are procedures intrinsic to the practice of Natural History. However, they may be deeply investigated, bringing out unsuspected dimensions of the history of museums and natural sciences. This dissertation aims to investigate the acquisition and use of collections of Natural History in the Museu Paulista of Ihering. We intend, therefore, to contribute to the understanding of the development of the first public museum in the state of São Paulo. More than that, we aim to understand the central role of scientific specimens in the production and communication of knowledge about the South American nature. To do so, we will examine the major steps involved in curating the collections: the acquisition of objects, its mobilization for the production of knowledge and its display in the public exhibitions. Keywords: material culture; collections; scientific specimens; Museu Paulista; Hermann von Ihering

Sur la base d’un examen combiné d’ouvrages médicaux, scientifiques, littéraires et critiques, ce travail développe une généalogie transnationale de la notion de Nervenkunst (« art des nerfs »). À partir d’une reconstitution des origines françaises des discours sédimentés dans cette catégorie (ainsi que de leurs sources prérévolutionnaires et antiques), on démontre que l’idée d’un lien génétique entre l’écriture et le système nerveux, dont on a fait jusqu’ici une particularité de la littérature autrichienne des années 1890, peut-être une préfiguration de la psychanalyse, constitue, en réalité, l’aboutissement d’un système d’échanges et de transformations échelonnés sur plusieurs siècles, et dont les trajectoires convergent à l’époque du naturalisme. La première partie est consacrée à l’invention des « nerfs modernes », soit à une histoire culturelle des imaginaires du système nerveux avant et après 1789. La deuxième partie décrit la formation d’une idée de l’écrivain des nerfs à l’époque du Second Empire et de la Troisième République naissante (à partir notamment de l’œuvre des frères Goncourt). La troisième partie s’interroge sur la germanisation de ces contenus : comment tout cela est passé dans les pays de langue allemande entre 1870 et 1890, à un moment où les rapports avec la France étaient problématiques ? La réponse passe par un système de transferts et de regards croisés qui implique l’Autriche et la Scandinavie. / Based on a cross-examination of medical, scientific, literary, and critical materials, this work attempts a transnational genealogy of the concept of Nervenkunst (“art of the nerves”). Through a historical reconstruction of the French origins of the discourses that coalesce in that category (and a survey of their prerevolutionary and ancient sources), our research proves that a genetic connection between the writer’s craft and the nervous system is neither a peculiarity of Austrian literature in the 1890s nor a premonition of psychoanalysis, but the product of a system of exchanges and transformations that span several centuries, to converge in the years of early Naturalism. The first part chronicles the invention of “modern nerves”; in other words, it offers a cultural history of the neurological imagination before and after 1789. The second part describes the genesis of an idea of the nervous author during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic (focusing on the work of the Goncourt brothers and their entourage). The third part deals with the germanization of these originally French contents: how did these notions take root in the German-speaking world at a time (1870-1890) when Berlin’s relations with Paris were problematic at best? The answer lies in a system of cultural mediations and mutual perceptions that involves, among other things, Austria and Scandinavia.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EDM - Maria do Carmo P Servidoni.pdf: 866161 bytes, checksum: 8e9e034ec8ba50f2872318b1cea8c98d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-07 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This research had as purpose the epistemology development of the knowledge object, number, in its formation as mathematical entity. It became evident that, in the end of the XIX century, the need of this formation caused many controversies, because number was understood as gift by God and consequently, considered something perfect. To the development of this research, we had as references Gramanns works, the first mathematician to consider, even if, in an unconscious form, the Axiomatization of Arithmetic. The main reference was the article entitled: The debate about the Axiomatization of Arithmetic: Otto Hölder against Robert Gramann by Mircea Radu (2003), in which, there is a debate about Axiomatization of Arithmetic under two points of view, on the other hand, we have Otto Hölder who believed in the synthetic nature of Mathematics, in such case, he rejected the axiomatical method as base for itself, and otherwise, Hermann Gramann and Robert Gramann that agree with the same idea, but they reject the axiomatical method. However, Gramann didnt understand so well his treatment of Arithmetic, because the laws that would define the natural numbers belonged to Algebra, another discipline that Grassmann considered as originated for all the other ones. In the development of this research, we indicated that the bases of the Axiomatization of Arithmetic were in the salience of big transformations occurred in Mathematics in the time of XIX century and beginning of XX one: the appearing of the non-Euclidean Geometries, the Algebra s release of Arithmetics veins and the intricate process of Arithmetization of Analysis. In this period, it also developed the relevancy or not of the use of axiomatic method as a basis of Arithmetic. We concluded that, in spite of all controversies of this period, 11 the possibility of Axiomatization of Arithmetic and the adoption of the axiomatical source in formal sciences contributed for the exact sciences / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento epistemológico do objeto de conhecimento número em sua constituição como entidade matemática. Ficou evidenciado que, no final do século XIX, a necessidade dessa constituição gerou muitas controvérsias, porque número era concebido como presente de Deus e, conseqüentemente, considerado algo perfeito. Para o desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa, tivemos como referência os trabalhos de Grassmann, o primeiro matemático a propor, mesmo que, de forma inconsciente, a Axiomatização da Aritmética. A referência principal foi o artigo intitulado: A debate about the axiomatization of arithmetic: Otto Hölder against Robert Gramann de Mircea Radu (2003), no qual se encontra um debate a respeito da Axiomatização da Aritmética sob dois pontos de vista; por um lado, temos Otto Hölder que acreditava na natureza sintética da Matemática, sendo assim rejeitava o método axiomático como base para a mesma; por outro lado, Robert Grassmann e Hermann Grassmann que, também, concordam com a idéia de Hölder, pois rejeitam o método axiomático. No entanto, apresentaram uma abordagem da Aritmética, aparentemente, axiomática. Na verdade, Grassmann não entendia assim seu tratamento da Aritmética, pois as leis que definiriam os números naturais pertenciam à Álgebra, outra disciplina que Grassmann considerou como geradora de todas as outras. No desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa, indicamos que as bases da axiomatização da Aritmética estavam no bojo das grandes transformações ocorridas na Matemática durante o século XIX e início do XX: o aparecimento das Geometrias não-euclidianas, a libertação da Álgebra das veias da Aritmética e o processo intrincado da Aritmetização da Análise. Nesse período, também, desenvolveu-se a discussão da pertinência ou não do uso do método 9 axiomático, como um fundamento da Aritmética. Concluiu-se que apesar de toda a polêmica desse período, a possibilidade da axiomatização da Aritmética e a adoção do princípio axiomático nas ciências formais contribuíram para o avanço das ciências exatas

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Werk des Dresdner Künstlers Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987) entgegen der bisherigen biografisch geprägten Sicht mit einem kunsttheoretischen Ansatz. Methodisch wird dabei das Werk im ersten Teil einer strengen Deskription unterzogen und funktionslogisch analysiert, d. h., die Bearbeitung stellt eine Art gestalterische Grammatik auf. Vor dem historischen Hintergrund einer Selbstfindung der Malerei nach dem 1. Weltkrieg ausgebreitet, wird durch die Grammatik deutlich, dass der Künstler weit mehr als bisher angenommen, einen mathematisch geprägten Weltzugang besaß und dieser indirekt zu einer Suche nach Universalität geführt hat. Neuland wird insbesondere bei der Darlegung von künstlerischen Denkstrukturen betreten. So kann gezeigt werden, dass sich in allen künstlerischen Äußerungen ein vornehmlich plastisches Denken manifestiert. Obwohl einige Arbeiten eindeutig zweidimensional angelegt sind, reflektieren sie dreidimensionale Probleme und weisen damit über sich hinaus in ein naturfremdes Universum. Es wird deutlich, wie der Künstler aus der beobachtbaren Natur Anregung und Kraft bezieht, seine künstlerischen Arbeiten aber nicht diese Natur spiegeln, sondern ihre Transzendenz geometrisch ausdrücken. Die Erkenntnisse des Künstlers aus diesem epistemologischen Malprozess fließen unmittelbar in Werke ein, deren optische Erscheinungen scheinbar ein Äquivalent in der Außenwelt besitzen. Aber auch bei diesen handelt es sich um einen nachprüfbaren, allgemeinen (universalen) malerischen Versuch, das Wesen oder den inneren Klang der Natur in einer "Einheit der Gegensätze" zu fassen. Die Analyse endet mit der Feststellung, dass sich die künstlerische Haltung Glöckners von einer konstruktivistischen zu einer eher symbolischen wandelt. Im zweiten Teil hinterfragt die Dissertation den bestehenden Forschungsstand in Bezug auf die durch politische Isolation begründete Eigenständigkeit bei der Entwicklung des künstlerischen Weges, die auch für eine Bewertung des künstlerischen Werkes im internationalen Kontext ein Hauptargument stellt. Durch weit reichende Recherchen wird das künstlerische Umfeld des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in Dresden beschrieben, in dem sich der Künstler entwickelt hat. Dabei werden signifikante Verbindungen zu entscheidenden Entwicklungsimpulsen im Werk geknüpft, sodass deren Besonderheiten vor einer historischen Folie an Transparenz gewinnen. Entscheidend sind dabei einzelne Kunstwerke in Dresdner Ausstellungen insbesondere der 1920er Jahre, die der Künstler Hermann Glöckner gesehen haben muss, da sie zu seinem eigenen Werk eine hohe Evidenz besitzen. Einen bisher ganz vernachlässigten Akzent setzt die Dissertation mit der Untersuchung zur Schulzeit des Künstlers. Trotz reformatorischer Bewegungen seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist der Zeichenunterricht in den Volksschulen kaum im modernen Sinne entwickelt. Gerade aber die strenge und reduzierte Form, die Lenkung der Wahrnehmung und Schulung der Hand auf elementare Formen und deren Übertragung auf die Natur, werden zu Katalysatoren der künstlerischen Entwicklung Glöckners. Ganz ungewöhnlich wird hier eine ansonsten als Beengung und Reglementierung empfundene Lehrmeinung affirmativ in eine künstlerische Haltung transformiert, die ihre Freiheit in der Beschränkung findet. Im dritten Teil stehen die kunsttheoretische Bestimmung Glöckners und deren Bewertung im internationalen Kontext im Mittelpunkt der Ausführungen. Wichtigste Erkenntnis ist, dass der Künstler zwar nicht öffentlich immer gesehen, aber im Werk begründet, an den wesentlichen kunsttheoretischen Zeugungsattacken der Moderne durch seine Werke sozusagen ideell mitgearbeitet hat. Seine Arbeiten besitzen den gleichen, an einzelnen Stellen sogar einen radikaleren Charakter, wie die Schlüsselwerke am Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts. Bestechend ist die Authentizität der Werke Glöckners, weil er sein ganzes Leben an einem Spiegel der Welt gearbeitet hat, der er selber war. / The dissertation explores the work of Dresden artist Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987). Contrary to existing studies which have been characterized by biographical approaches, this dissertation follows an approach based on theory of art. In the first part, the method is to strictly describe his work and analyze it according to functional logic; i. e. during this process a kind of artistic grammar is being produced. Set against the historical background of a search for a new identity by painters after World War One, the grammar shows clearly that the artist cherished – way more than hitherto assumed – a world view shaped by mathematic principles which, indirectly, led him on to a search for universality. The demonstration of the structures of the artist's way of thinking breaks new ground and shows that in all of his artistic expressions a primarily plastic way of thinking manifests itself. Although a few of his works are unequivocally arranged in a two-dimensional order, they reflect three-dimensional problems and thus point beyond themselves to a universe alien to nature. It becomes clear how the artist gains stimulus and energy by observing nature, while his works of art do not mirror this nature, but express their transcendence in a geometrical manner. The artist's insights gained during this epistemological painting process directly leave their mark on works which by their visual appearance seem to possess an equivalent in the outside world. However, these works also represent a verifiable, universal pictorial experiment to subsume the essence or inner sound of nature in a "unity of opposites". The analysis results in the conclusion that Glöckner's aesthetic position developed from a constructivist to a rather symbolic one. The second part of the thesis challenges the current state of research in relation to the autonomous artistic development due to political isolation, which also constitutes one of the main arguments for the assessment of Glöckner's works of art in the international context. Findings from extensive research describe the artistic environment of the early 20th century in Dresden in which the artist developed. At the same time significant connections to pivotal impulses in the development of his work are revealed so that their exceptional quality is demonstrated more clearly against a historic backdrop. Of key importance are individual works from art exhibitions in Dresden, especially from the 1920s, which Hermann Glöckner must have seen, since there are highly evident links to his own works. In studying the schooldays of the artist, the dissertation puts emphasis on a hitherto completely neglected aspect. Despite educational reforms starting in the middle of the 19th century, drawing lessons in elementary schools were hardly modernized. However, of all things the austere and reduced form, a controlled perception and the training in drawing elementary forms and assigning these to nature, turn out to be catalysts of Glöckner's artistic development. A doctrine otherwise perceived as restrictive and regularised as in an educational context is transformed in quite an extraordinary manner affirmatively into an aesthetic position which finds its artistic license in limitation. The focus of attention of the third part of the thesis is to determine Glöckner's position within theory of art and its evaluation in an international context. The main conclusion is that the artist as it were contributed with his ideas rooted in his oeuvre to the fundamental creative acts giving rise to modernist art theory, which has, however, not always been publicly acknowledged. His works possess the same character as the key works of art of the beginning of the last century and in some respects are even more radical than these. The authenticity of Glöckner's oeuvre is impressive, for all his life he had been working on a mirror of the world, which was he himself.

Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2002. / Literaturverz. S. 177 - 193.

Der Teilnachlass des prominenten DDR-Chefarchitekten Hermann Henselmann (1905-1995) in der Handschriftensammlung der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden steht für ein sehr junges Kapitel deutscher Architekturgeschichte. ...

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Werk des Dresdner Künstlers Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987) entgegen der bisherigen biografisch geprägten Sicht mit einem kunsttheoretischen Ansatz. Methodisch wird dabei das Werk im ersten Teil einer strengen Deskription unterzogen und funktionslogisch analysiert, d. h., die Bearbeitung stellt eine Art gestalterische Grammatik auf. Vor dem historischen Hintergrund einer Selbstfindung der Malerei nach dem 1. Weltkrieg ausgebreitet, wird durch die Grammatik deutlich, dass der Künstler weit mehr als bisher angenommen, einen mathematisch geprägten Weltzugang besaß und dieser indirekt zu einer Suche nach Universalität geführt hat. Neuland wird insbesondere bei der Darlegung von künstlerischen Denkstrukturen betreten. So kann gezeigt werden, dass sich in allen künstlerischen Äußerungen ein vornehmlich plastisches Denken manifestiert. Obwohl einige Arbeiten eindeutig zweidimensional angelegt sind, reflektieren sie dreidimensionale Probleme und weisen damit über sich hinaus in ein naturfremdes Universum. Es wird deutlich, wie der Künstler aus der beobachtbaren Natur Anregung und Kraft bezieht, seine künstlerischen Arbeiten aber nicht diese Natur spiegeln, sondern ihre Transzendenz geometrisch ausdrücken. Die Erkenntnisse des Künstlers aus diesem epistemologischen Malprozess fließen unmittelbar in Werke ein, deren optische Erscheinungen scheinbar ein Äquivalent in der Außenwelt besitzen. Aber auch bei diesen handelt es sich um einen nachprüfbaren, allgemeinen (universalen) malerischen Versuch, das Wesen oder den inneren Klang der Natur in einer "Einheit der Gegensätze" zu fassen. Die Analyse endet mit der Feststellung, dass sich die künstlerische Haltung Glöckners von einer konstruktivistischen zu einer eher symbolischen wandelt. Im zweiten Teil hinterfragt die Dissertation den bestehenden Forschungsstand in Bezug auf die durch politische Isolation begründete Eigenständigkeit bei der Entwicklung des künstlerischen Weges, die auch für eine Bewertung des künstlerischen Werkes im internationalen Kontext ein Hauptargument stellt. Durch weit reichende Recherchen wird das künstlerische Umfeld des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in Dresden beschrieben, in dem sich der Künstler entwickelt hat. Dabei werden signifikante Verbindungen zu entscheidenden Entwicklungsimpulsen im Werk geknüpft, sodass deren Besonderheiten vor einer historischen Folie an Transparenz gewinnen. Entscheidend sind dabei einzelne Kunstwerke in Dresdner Ausstellungen insbesondere der 1920er Jahre, die der Künstler Hermann Glöckner gesehen haben muss, da sie zu seinem eigenen Werk eine hohe Evidenz besitzen. Einen bisher ganz vernachlässigten Akzent setzt die Dissertation mit der Untersuchung zur Schulzeit des Künstlers. Trotz reformatorischer Bewegungen seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist der Zeichenunterricht in den Volksschulen kaum im modernen Sinne entwickelt. Gerade aber die strenge und reduzierte Form, die Lenkung der Wahrnehmung und Schulung der Hand auf elementare Formen und deren Übertragung auf die Natur, werden zu Katalysatoren der künstlerischen Entwicklung Glöckners. Ganz ungewöhnlich wird hier eine ansonsten als Beengung und Reglementierung empfundene Lehrmeinung affirmativ in eine künstlerische Haltung transformiert, die ihre Freiheit in der Beschränkung findet. Im dritten Teil stehen die kunsttheoretische Bestimmung Glöckners und deren Bewertung im internationalen Kontext im Mittelpunkt der Ausführungen. Wichtigste Erkenntnis ist, dass der Künstler zwar nicht öffentlich immer gesehen, aber im Werk begründet, an den wesentlichen kunsttheoretischen Zeugungsattacken der Moderne durch seine Werke sozusagen ideell mitgearbeitet hat. Seine Arbeiten besitzen den gleichen, an einzelnen Stellen sogar einen radikaleren Charakter, wie die Schlüsselwerke am Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts. Bestechend ist die Authentizität der Werke Glöckners, weil er sein ganzes Leben an einem Spiegel der Welt gearbeitet hat, der er selber war. / The dissertation explores the work of Dresden artist Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987). Contrary to existing studies which have been characterized by biographical approaches, this dissertation follows an approach based on theory of art. In the first part, the method is to strictly describe his work and analyze it according to functional logic; i. e. during this process a kind of artistic grammar is being produced. Set against the historical background of a search for a new identity by painters after World War One, the grammar shows clearly that the artist cherished – way more than hitherto assumed – a world view shaped by mathematic principles which, indirectly, led him on to a search for universality. The demonstration of the structures of the artist's way of thinking breaks new ground and shows that in all of his artistic expressions a primarily plastic way of thinking manifests itself. Although a few of his works are unequivocally arranged in a two-dimensional order, they reflect three-dimensional problems and thus point beyond themselves to a universe alien to nature. It becomes clear how the artist gains stimulus and energy by observing nature, while his works of art do not mirror this nature, but express their transcendence in a geometrical manner. The artist's insights gained during this epistemological painting process directly leave their mark on works which by their visual appearance seem to possess an equivalent in the outside world. However, these works also represent a verifiable, universal pictorial experiment to subsume the essence or inner sound of nature in a "unity of opposites". The analysis results in the conclusion that Glöckner's aesthetic position developed from a constructivist to a rather symbolic one. The second part of the thesis challenges the current state of research in relation to the autonomous artistic development due to political isolation, which also constitutes one of the main arguments for the assessment of Glöckner's works of art in the international context. Findings from extensive research describe the artistic environment of the early 20th century in Dresden in which the artist developed. At the same time significant connections to pivotal impulses in the development of his work are revealed so that their exceptional quality is demonstrated more clearly against a historic backdrop. Of key importance are individual works from art exhibitions in Dresden, especially from the 1920s, which Hermann Glöckner must have seen, since there are highly evident links to his own works. In studying the schooldays of the artist, the dissertation puts emphasis on a hitherto completely neglected aspect. Despite educational reforms starting in the middle of the 19th century, drawing lessons in elementary schools were hardly modernized. However, of all things the austere and reduced form, a controlled perception and the training in drawing elementary forms and assigning these to nature, turn out to be catalysts of Glöckner's artistic development. A doctrine otherwise perceived as restrictive and regularised as in an educational context is transformed in quite an extraordinary manner affirmatively into an aesthetic position which finds its artistic license in limitation. The focus of attention of the third part of the thesis is to determine Glöckner's position within theory of art and its evaluation in an international context. The main conclusion is that the artist as it were contributed with his ideas rooted in his oeuvre to the fundamental creative acts giving rise to modernist art theory, which has, however, not always been publicly acknowledged. His works possess the same character as the key works of art of the beginning of the last century and in some respects are even more radical than these. The authenticity of Glöckner's oeuvre is impressive, for all his life he had been working on a mirror of the world, which was he himself.