Kolce Grünewalda. „Róża” i Ołtarz z Isenheim
Grünewald’s Thorns: “Róża” [“Rose”] and the Isenheim Altarpiece

Summary/Abstract: In this article Szewczyk-Haake contextualizes Tadeusz Różewicz’s poem “Róża” [“Rose”], from his collected poems [Poezje zebrane] of 1971, with the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece. The retable in Różewicz’s poem is read in two ways. On the one hand, being characteristic of German art, the poem is interpreted in a broadly German context. On the other hand, Różewicz’s return in “Róża” to the “German thread” – a major theme in his oeuvre – does not cancel out the existential significance of his confrontation with the medieval masterpiece. Szewczyk-Haake consequently suggests that Różewicz juxtaposes two ways of understanding the relationship between the work of art and its audience. According to the first, interpretation hinges on a range of key reception experiences; according to the second, interpretation is based on aesthetic experience, beyond time.

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