Author: Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Ed.)Villa Silberblick, where a mentally ill Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche not only looked after her brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration for the philosopher by installing the Nietzsche Archive in the building. Featuring many coloured illustrations, the book relates the turbulent history of a memorial that reflects the ambivalence of modernism. As the archive was initially very popular amongst Europe’s avant-garde, later Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche allowed the archive to be instrumentalised by the National Socialists before it became a taboo topic in the GDR.ISBN 9783422987166. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 136 pages. 47 b/w, 79 colour ills. 23 x 15 cm. .available
