GRETCHEN (FOLLOWING GUSTAVE COURBET)
The photography "Gretchen" ist formally based on the oil painting "The Origin of the World" painted by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) in the year 1866. Today the painting can be visited in the Musée d'Dorsay in Paris.
Concerning the content I retell or continue the narration of that image. At that I concentrated closely on Goethe's Faust I, and particularly on the Gretchenfrage (crucial question) (Faust I, rhyme 3415): At the time of Goethe the Christian religion defined the sexual morality. Therefore Gretchen (the girl) wants to know what are the views of the gallant Faust (the man) to the Christian faith. Would he be a pious father of a family in future or would he abandon her in the case she becomes pregnant??
Otherwise put: Only in accordance with the teachings of the Lord Gretchen likes to elect a lover and husband. Only if he thinks in terms of Christian morality he can be trusted to become a caring family father.
1 Timothy 2, rhyme 14: “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 3: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 8: “For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 9: “for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
Concerning the content I retell or continue the narration of that image. At that I concentrated closely on Goethe's Faust I, and particularly on the Gretchenfrage (crucial question) (Faust I, rhyme 3415): At the time of Goethe the Christian religion defined the sexual morality. Therefore Gretchen (the girl) wants to know what are the views of the gallant Faust (the man) to the Christian faith. Would he be a pious father of a family in future or would he abandon her in the case she becomes pregnant??
Otherwise put: Only in accordance with the teachings of the Lord Gretchen likes to elect a lover and husband. Only if he thinks in terms of Christian morality he can be trusted to become a caring family father.
1 Timothy 2, rhyme 14: “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 3: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 8: “For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
1 Corinthians 11, rhyme 9: “for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
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