Hadesbuch
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Hadesbuch is a book of Klecksographien (blot pictures) by Justinus Kerner, finished in 1857, but which remained unpublished until 1890.
As described by Anna Mary Howitt Watts
- A scarcely less peculiar accomplishment unfolded itself in Kerner during the years of his increasing blindness, and which he playfully called Klecksographen, which may be translated as Blotto-graphs ; these were the fantastic duplicate shapes produced in the folds of papers from ink blots. This amusement became a source of poetical inspiration to him, he creating out of them whimsical forms, all manner of figures from the spirit-world, and giving to each a poetic description of a grave or humorous turn, according to the bent of his genius. A number of those Klecksographen were collected together by Kerner, and arranged in a scrap-book by him in 1857. The poetical descriptions illustrative of the designs being from his own hand, together with a preface describing their origin ; thus, the whole was prepared for publication. The difficulty of re-producing the Klecksographen, however, obliged the idea of their presentation to the public to be abandoned. An illustrated paper, Uber Land und Meer, in its number for May 25th, 1862, has given a paragraph from Theobald Kerner relating to the Klecksographen, together with several specimens engraved on wood. --Anna Mary Howitt Watts in Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation (1883)
German text
Kerners Freude am Grotesken beweisen seine „Klecksographien“. Quelle dieser Beschäftigung waren die „Tintensäue“, die zuweilen auf die Briefe und Manuskripte des fast erblindeten Dichters fielen. Durch Faltung des Papiers erzeugte er aus den zerdrückten Tintenklecksen abstrakte Zeichnungen, denen er mit ein paar zusätzlichen Federstrichen eine narrative Darstellung zu geben versuchte. Das von ihm aus Klecksographien zusammengestellte „Hadesbuch“ ist in Urschrift im Schiller-Nationalmuseum in Marbach am Neckar erhalten. Der Schweizer Psychoanalytiker Hermann Rorschach benutzte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts solche „Zeichnungen“ seiner Patienten in dem nach ihm benannten und stets umstrittenen Rorschachtest zur Bestimmung von Wahrnehmungsvermögen, Intelligenz und emotionalen Charakteristika.
English machine translation
Kerner's delight in the grotesque prove his "Klecksographien". Source of employment were the "Tintensäue" which sometimes fell on the letters and manuscripts of the poet's almost blind. By folding the paper he produced from the crushed inkblots abstract drawings, which he tried to give a few extra strokes of the pen a narrative representation. The Klecksographien compiled by him from "Hades Book" is available in single copy in the National Schiller Museum in Marbach am Neckar. The Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach used at the beginning of the 20th Century such "drawings" of his patients in the named after him, and always controversial Rorschach test for the determination of perception, intelligence and emotional characteristics.
