Large-scale monograph on some of the most important creative figures in Modern Europe and its inheritors. Written contributions by Walter Scheel, Harald Szeemann, Bazon Brock, Odo Marquard, Michael Lingner, Günter Metken, Werner Hofmann, Jean Clair, Karla Fohrbeck, Dominick Keller, and Theo Kneubühler. Artists highlighted include Johann Georg Sulzer, Etienne-Louis Boullée, Charles Fourier, Philipp Otto Runge, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Richard Wagner, Ludwig II, Henry David Thoreau, Gottfried Keller, Henry Dunant, Ferdinand Cheval, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Rudolf Steiner, Adolphe Appia, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Adolf Wölfli, Fidus, Peter Behrens, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander N. Skrjabin, Arnold Schönberg, Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malewitsch, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Kurt Schwitters, Wladimir Ewgrafowitsch Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Rudolf von Laban, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Antonin Artaud, Armand Schulthess, Robert Garcet, John Cage, Alexandre Spengler, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Hermann Nitsch, Anselm Kiefer, and André Vladimir Heiz. Includes individual artist's biographies. Text in German.