STYLE BIBLE 2015

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Sacrum
Who has no spring no
bloom will see! Who
silent keeps, no echo
hears! Whose heart
sings not, no poet he,
Who does not love,
no love he shares.
Otto Prechtler
Under Pallas Athena’s watch-
ful eye, Theseus wrestles with
the Minotaur. Man and beast
symbolize the struggle be-
tween progress and tradition—
the same struggle that the Vien-
na Secession fought around the
turn of the nineteenth century.
The goddess of the arts seems
calm and benign as she ob-
serves the unfolding of events.
But her wisdom is reserved for
those who seek to overcome
obsolete conventions and
strive for renewal.
Pallas Athena: Beate Barton
Make-up & hair: Peter Schindler/
perfectprops |Shield:BirgitMörtl |Theseus:
Moritz Deters | Make-up: Einat Dan | Mi-
notaur:Clemens Hartleb
| Make-up: Einat Dan | Bodypainting & air-
brush: Birgit Mörtl | Costumes: Kostümfun-
dus ART for ART with decorative elements
by Swarovski and Zaruba
King
Midas
There is one treasure to
which you can add day
and night: the treasure
of good deeds.
Japanese proverb
In his blind greed King Midas
asks the god Dionysus for what-
ever he touches to be turned
into gold. He does not stop
to consider that his food and
drink will turn into gold, too,
and that he may soon die of
hunger and thirst. Worse than
that, the god’s questionable
gift condemns Midas to a terri-
ble loneliness, since his touch
turns people into gold as well:
his loved ones are changed into
precious but inanimate objects.
Dionysus takes pity on the pen-
itent king and lifts the curse. Mi-
das devotes the rest of his life
to helping others. All the gold in
the world does not bring happi-
ness if it cannot be shared; true
contentment lies in using one’s
riches to do good.
das:Stanislav Jakuschevskij
Daughter: Sophie Marie Fraus-
cher Make-up: Einat
Dan und Jody Cuberli/perfectprops | Hair:
Regina Breitenfelder, Anna Winkelhuber |
Bodypainting: Birgit Mörtl | Costumes: Kos­
tümfundus ART for ART with decorative
elements by Swarovski and Zaruba