via: http://www.iwwg.com/index.php?section=words
Lebensfreude = joy of living
Lebenskunst = art of living
Lebenskünstler = master of the art of living
http://www.heilkunst.com/rebuttal.html
* Lebenskünstler (“life artist”, someone who masters life in a somewhat eccentric way)
* -meister (primarily satirical usage)
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2621&page=83
connoisseur of the art of living – Lebenskünstler
http://www.dict.cc/english-german/c264.php
http://randallszott.org/lebenskunstler/
documenta – a world exhibition of modern art
There is a very thin line between scandal and triumph, protest and delight, provocation and experimentation at documenta. As the world's most important recurring exhibition for contemporary art, it is a reflection on society and a showcase for international art. documenta takes place every five years (originally every four) and lasts 100 days. It made its first appearance in 1955 on the initiative of the Kassel-born artist and designer Arnold Bode, who wanted to send out a signal of renewal and to familiarise people in Germany with the work of artists who had been exiled as 'degenerates' and who were banned until 1945.
The venue for the exhibition has been the Fridericianum since 1955, while the Documenta Hall was added in 1992 for documenta 9. Other museums are also always used for the duration of the exhibition. Besides the pieces displayed inside these venues, documenta regularly features outdoor exhibits. Some of the most spectacular are now an integral part of the townscape, for example, the 7,000 Oaks project by Joseph Beuys, the Rahmenbau steel sculpture by the Austrian collective Haus-Rucker-Co, Claes Oldenburg's giant pickaxe on the banks of the Fulda and Jonathan Borofsky's Man Walking to the Sky, which was installed for documenta 9 in 1992. Each of these great works of art is a reason to visit Kassel. A date for the diary: documenta 13 starts on 9 June 2012.
http://d13.documenta.de/
