The Austrian artist Thomas Sturm traveled to the major European museums, looked at and photographed the paintings of the Old Masters like other tourists, but did strange things with the photographs back in his Berlin studio. What did he do there? What can now be seen in the paintings, seen in a new way, seen differently, maybe also: not to be seen anymore? Why again: the old masters, and anyway: when an artist is old? Thomas Sturm studied in Linz and Berlin, exhibited in numerous places on different continents, is represented in public and private collections, and now after Cologne, Wiesbaden and scholarship stays in Los Angeles and Brazil lives in Charlottenburg. Wolfgang Ullrich lives as a freelance author and cultural scientist in Leipzig. For a long time he engages with art that deals with existing art and reinterprets, transforms or supplements it. Christoph Narholz is an author and teaches at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich. He has known Thomas since his youth and takes a personal look at his friend's actionist interventions in the canon of European painting.weiterlesen