Dr. Herbert Jost-Hof

”Thus Lietdke‘s creative work reminds
of artists like Leonardo da Vinci, who used their creativity in
an interdisciplinary way in order
to eliminate the usual division between substance and spirit,
scientific cognition and artistic fantasy.
Liedtke‘s works, like those by da Vinci, reveal his prophetic
properties, show that his findings are years ahead of those of
scientific research. It‘s not yet clear
how such a thing is possible.
But there is decisive evidence that it is possible.“

“Liedtke is a thinker and researcher whose partly intuitive, partly conscious access to insights
of various humanistic and natural- scientific disciplines constitutes the inspiration for his art
and his
work as an author. In this way some works of art have arisen,
such as paintings and collages, abstracting the complex scien- tific processes or conditions. So
Liedtke’s creative work is reminis-
cent of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci,
who also used their interdisciplinary creativity to revoke the usual divisions between the matter
and the spirit, scientific
knowledge, and artistic imagination. And just like
da Vinci’s, Liedtke’s works have identified him as a visionary, as a man who by the consequences of
his thinking and acting as an artist of scientific research is not rarely moving by years
ahead.“
“In fact, Dieter W. Liedtke’s works, which reflect his
vision of art as creating abstractions,
are in some way similar to the sketches and
models by Leonardo da Vinci, as
they recorded and represented real and important
scientific findings at a time when
the respective scientific disciplines were still far from them.”

Dr. Jost-Hof
Cultural and communication scientist