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Dante's allegorical and didactic poem was written between about 1307 and 1321. It is the first significant poetry in the Italian vernacular and was first printed in 1472. Dante (1265-1321) tells of the journey made by his sinful soul to eternal salvation, passing through the three realms of the other world: the inferno (hell), purgatorio (Mount Purgatory) and paradiso (paradise). On the way he meets the souls of the dead. Since 1977, Prechtl's sepia watercolour drawings have come to represent a new direction and a special case of the use of colour in Prechtl's oeuvre - the reduction to a black-brown tone is like an exercise in asceticism. In his works on Dante, Prechtl selects a form of narrative related to the flashback in black and white in film, a technique which emphasises the aspect of memory and the fictitiously "documentary" nature of the images. |
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depiction of hell is often very brutal and draws on primeval fears.
Prechtl's illustrations are unusual compared to other works on the Commedia (Sandro Botticelli, Gustave Doré). Here, 30 years later, Prechtl captures his own experiences from the Second World War. |
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