00:00 Hello, this is Alexander Johannes Kraut.
00:02 And I mean, here there's a series of drawings I did.
00:08 I did them in Paris.
00:09 It's called the Livre des images.
00:12 And what inspired the drawings?
00:17 Well, that's a big question, because a lot of things
00:21 inspired me.
00:22 I came from the country into Paris,
00:25 so the cultural contrast was very big.
00:29 Because I was living in the Alps,
00:32 and there was everything calm, not so many people.
00:36 And then stepping into Paris city, into the center,
00:40 I had a lot of things to see.
00:45 And that inspired me a lot.
00:47 And it made my work go on fluently.
00:51 So I was drawing a lot.
00:52 I was doing a lot.
00:54 And I was very much with other people from other professions.
01:00 So in the drawings, you tell a story.
01:04 Well, actually, it has nothing to do
01:07 with the comic in the traditional way.
01:09 And I'm not influenced by comics.
01:12 I'm influenced by, maybe more by classical things,
01:16 but by Albrecht Durer, which I would say
01:19 is one of my great teachers.
01:22 Or by drawing all over the different decades.
01:30 But the main question is about pictures.
01:33 The book is called Livre des images.
01:35 It should be a book about how pictures work in ourself.
01:38 And I try to include all the types of pictures.
01:43 The painting is maybe the main issue, the painting
01:47 from a totally different time.
01:49 And he's in the museum there.
01:52 And I realized by myself that the interesting thing,
01:55 that I did this in the morning, this drawing.
02:00 And in the evening, I did this.
02:02 I'm not working after a concept directly.
02:04 I just start.
02:05 It's not something which is planned.
02:08 So I was wondering about that this body is kind of the same.
02:12 It heated up.
02:13 This is the building.
02:14 And I wanted this figure, which I created,
02:19 I wanted it to visit myself.
02:23 So he enters my studio.
02:25 He's knocking at the door.
02:27 This is exactly my room.
02:30 And I was always using those-- ah,
02:32 [GERMAN]
02:33 I don't know how to say it in English--
02:35 to put the drawings onto the wall.
02:37 And this is a furniture I was building with one shoe.
02:42 It's forbidden to bring furniture with you.
02:44 So I had to build it up in the room by garbage from outside.
02:47 So yeah, and I'm drawing there.
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