Wittgenstein -2012
“A philosopher,” he wrote in 1944, “is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, at Alleegasse 16 (now Argentinierstraße), on 26 April 1889 at 8.30 in the evening.
Composite photo
“Don’t think, look!” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The woman with the haunted look staring back out of the photograph has never existed. She is a composite, created by overlaying four different photos of four different faces: three sisters, all middle-aged Austrian women, and their brother, the philosophical genius Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The tragedy of Wittgenstein’s photographs
Two scenes from Derek Jarman’s film ‘Wittgenstein’ (1989)