Meine ersten Werke landeten im Ofen

The victim of a Munich forgery scandal, works of art as matchmakers, bullying in an architect's office 250 years ago, the failed suicide of a genius - these are stories that life wrote, but which are not immediately associated with the names of the respective protagonists. In 25 art puzzles, artists tell true details of their lives in fictional monologues and ask us at the end: "Who am I?"

"'She barks,' a colleague once said of my voice, another found me unbearable and thought I was a boring drunkard. A third saw me as the greatest poet the country has ever had." We all know them - we have each of the 25 artists to guess and their works in front of us. Charlotte Vierer, however, knows how to turn the biographies of these celebrities into small, entertaining puzzles written with a wink, which invite you to find out more about the artists, their contemporaries and sometimes adventurous living conditions. As befits a puzzle book, the solutions are presented at the end of the volume, each with a work of art by the main characters. This bibliophile edition of the first 25 art puzzles, which will be continued, is published in a limited edition.