TY - BOOK AU - Huguet,Jean-Marc TI - Goethe’s tree PY - 2002///. N1 - 35 N2 - Buchenwald is eight kilometers from Weimar. Weimar-the-Beautiful, cradle of German culture, symbolizes German unity, according to Goethe. Weimar-the-Black, Hitler parading at the Elephant Hotel, when he took Thuringia. In the Buchenwald camp, Faust can cry “Even Hell has its own laws.” Boris Taslitzky paints Halbwachs in the Revier de Buchenwald, Zoran Music draws Dachau. Another war at another time, in 1912, at the Neulengbach prison, Egon Schiele “lives a life of profound misery.” Five years later, in the Weimar Republic, the Bauhaus School inaugurated total architectural creativity. Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee invented modern art. The Bauhaus was closed in 1933. Art was to be devoted to the glorification of the Volksgemeinschaft, the Nazi national community. The imbrication of good and evil, by the proximity of these places, renders what art can suggest of the unspeakable when the artist rubs shoulders with horror UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2002-18-page-127?lang=en ER -