Combining all of Michael Morgner's works in this unique publication not only creates an impressive panorama of this extraordinary oeuvre, it also provides a glimpse of the life behind the paintings and sculptures. Raised in Chemnitz and educated at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Morgner was not only a freelance artist in the old German Democratic Republic, but also a free- thinking artist. Above all, however, this overview of his work bears witness to an artistic oeuvre in which Morgner works through his extensive repertoire of figures in a fascinating way, creating ever-new metamorphoses and making them shine at the boundary of abstraction. It