Bert E A Klag Now, one might want to argue that this loss of identity might be exaggerated, since most likely only very few of the nine million women will see themselves reduced in such drastic way. The same judgement might apply to the bread and water served during the vernissage. This gesture might have been stronger than necessary. However, I do not intend to argue about this issue. I am willing to accept the paradigm under which Laura was constructed -- which definitively is politically correct -- as a valid artistic exaggeration and I would like to come up with four propositions regarding the artist who created Laura. First proposition regarding Bert E.A. Klag: As an artist Bert E.A. Klag is also a political being who explicitly adopts political themes as objects of his art. All this he does in a provocative way. Bert Klag Photograph from his project "Der schöne Krieg" (The Beautiful War) © Bert E.A. Klag Bert Klag is not exactly an inconspicuous character, either as an artist, or as a person: with his thick gray beard he comes pretty close to the cliché one had of anarchists twenty years ago; and the irony with which Klag presents his beard shows a similarly anarchic humor. At the same time, looming large and charismatic, he looks like the patriarch of an old Spanish land owner. click to continue...