Stations of the Cross
These Stations of the Cross were created in 1986f. for the Catholic Church “Heart of Jesus” in Wurzen (Germany), presently they are relocated to the Cathedral’s Treasury in St. Petri in Bautzen. The stations described in particular below are ment for deepening, as a stimulus and as food for thought in abbreviated form for pondering and contemplating about the stations, they were compiled in May 1987 for the church leadership.
(9/1986 – oil on canvas on hardboard, 60×45cm)
© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Station I: Jesus is sentenced to death
Then he gave them Jesus for crucifixion
- History binds man into her mode of existence and order, but in the end she remains behind and releases man into the encounter with the Absolute
- the world has pronounced its verdict the self-intoxicated power and glory
- now it is over, we have condemned God to death
- The Creature puts itself for judgement over the Creator. Who has the power, with the confessor of the truth to destroy the truth itself?
- All convicts find their neighbor in Him
- God
- as a father, as an origin, as a guide, as a mercy
- these are the internal forces that make man capable of withstanding storms and attacks
Cross Announcement
On the bright morning of the day a bloody cross becomes visible, dark signs are in the air
rod breakage
Death
Creature and creator, sinner and saint
the dead deceased talks about the immortal
Son steps in front of the father in the place of the sinful man
tolerant lamb goes silently to the slaughtering block
Christ is embarrassing to us, we do not want him among us
our law is blood and gold, Caesar our king
Fair of violence
Humanity is still blaspheming God, so humanity is guilty of death, but God is carrying all our guilt
in the knot of being lies the truth, we are a beautiful miracle
and irresponsible dullness
Face of the likeness extinguished, is unrecognizable
Hand washing of innocence
regretful hands
Head and heart—separate from the body, mind is free
lively veins of life
(1986 – oil on canvas on hardboard, 60×45cm)
© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Station II: Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders
He himself carried his cross
- we gave him timber for his bread
- but how immense is the cross long, long as the sins of men
- cross is heavy with the vices of mankind
sin began on the timber, Timber-Cross and snake as a sign of new life, Timber-Ark let man survive, Timber-Cross as a sin cross, giving new dignity through Jesus - the Timber-Cross of Christ stands higher than the ark, it stands as a bridge to heaven
- greetings, o cross – that “I” have desired for so long‚ he embraces the eternal cross for the first time, o Tree of Paradise
dark large cross – wherein the royal head INRI
slender torn hands reach around it
the dark cross has now become reality