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“Der Zauberer” (The Wizard)
“Meine Schöne” (My Beauty)
“Kleiner Schreihals” (Little Screamer)
“Sibelius”
“Mr. Snow's World”
“Tagungsfrieden” (Peace at the Conference)
“Der Unternehmer” (The Entrepreneur)
“Das Waldschriftstück”
“Der Unternehmer” (The Entrepreneur)
“Der Unternehmer” (The Entrepreneur)
"Der Unternehmer"(The Entrepreneur)" was created 50% as a ballpoint pen drawing at a Price Waterhouse meeting in 1995 in Potsdam/Germany and 50% in Feb/March 2004 using only "Painter" (Metacreations). Background: A page from an old edition of Karl Marx "Capital"(Vol 1, 1909).  Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 40x30 cm, Picture: 36x26 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 300.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
Merging this funny „entrepreneur-bird” with a page from Marx’s “Capital” in 2004, represents not only the more or less self-explanatory choosing of such a background, but also the totally different economic situation nearly a decade later. Though in 2004 no one could really tell, when the inevitable “pay day” would be, that is, that a massive financial crash would occur, for any economist in his right mind it was clear, that those who thought astronomical profits could be sustained for ever were the readers of tea leaves. But the fact that greed eats the brain was already quite obvious in 2004, because it was the most capable people doing the mathematical modeling in order to make money from hot air. For this reason: Marx in the background, nothing further. There is no panacea to be found in his writings, nothing practical at all, but a strong warning against a rampaging financial sector on the loose can surely be attributed to the man. But again: It’s only a “good” image, if it is a good “image”.