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Bildide

English translation: Bildidee

09:29 Apr 6, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / painting
German term or phrase: Bildide
Is this a just a typo for Bildidee or does it mean something else - I have seen several instances of it on Google, though they could all be typos, of course, and they don't seem to explain much. Probably a very stupid question; forgive me if it is.

It appears in the following notes produced by an artist about his own work [date: 1925, if it matters]

Wenn meine früheren Bilder der zweiten Periode schon unverkennbar diese Dentenz zeigen, aus dem Vorahnunggefühl ihre Energie schöpften, so entfalten die Neuen, doch mit größerer Deutlichkeit und Entschiedenheit, den Zug der "Umgestaltung". Aber jedenfalls mußten die früheren mit Ihren oft naturali(sti)scherem Geiste zuerst gemalt werden, ehe ich zu den späteren gelangen konnte. Die Einbeziehungen des "Lichtes" (ich nenne Farbe Licht, in die Bildide gibt der Form die größere Klarheit u. Lebendigkeit, Realität. [sic]

The artist is Austrian/Italian.
Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:09
English translation:Bildidee
Explanation:
Helen, it cannot be anything else
Selected response from:

Stephen Sadie
Germany
Local time: 23:09
Grading comment
Thanks, Stephen and everyone else. No need to keep this question open any longer really, so will close now.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +9Bildidee
Stephen Sadie


Discussion entries: 6





  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
Bildidee


Explanation:
Helen, it cannot be anything else

Stephen Sadie
Germany
Local time: 23:09
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thanks, Stephen and everyone else. No need to keep this question open any longer really, so will close now.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, I thought so - particularly in light of the other strange spellings, but since this has been twice published in this form, I thought I'd better check, in case these were weird Austrianisms.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  LegalTrans D
0 min
  -> danke volkmar
agree  Lars-Olof Nilsson: Must be Bildidee. There are some misspellings in the quote, like "Dentenz" for "Tendenz" and "Ihren", which must be "ihren". And there are others.
10 mins
  -> oodles of them in fact, thanks
agree  hazmatgerman (X): Very probably, as I fail to make a connex between Caesar's murder and the Gestalt of this painting.
23 mins
  -> Yes..."I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"
agree  Andreas Kobell
54 mins
agree  Silvia Autenrieth: Definitely a typo.
3 hrs
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X): absolutely, nothing else makes sense here/ w/ Bernhard's commentary: Tendenz
3 hrs
agree  Lonnie Legg: Given the context, seems very likely...
4 hrs
agree  Rebecca Garber
4 hrs
agree  Stephen Reader: Just seen the questoin's closed, underszdantably. Phancy haending it to you in that stait to translate. LG / S PS Ah 1920s, I take it all back. Instant images of ecstatic painters in the wake of Steiner+Sezession?
6 hrs
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