Hildegard von Bingen
Artist
John Jacobsmeyer
MediumWood engraving
Dimensions15 x 13 in. (38.1 x 33 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
This is an anamorphically distorted portrait of 'possible fathers,' and 'possible mothers' in my ongoing body of work questioning and parodying intellectual patrimony. I imagined myself as an intellectual orphan and sought out individuals that I had mythologized. Hildgard Von Bingen (1098-1179) was a German abbess and mystic, one of the earliest known female composers.