Prof. Dr. Manfred Schrey

“The art of Leonardo da Vinci and his achievements as an
inventor are widely known to me”.

“The examination of Dieter Liedtke’s innovations as an artist
and inventor and of the comparison with Leonardo da Vinci
required several years of conscientious analysis of Liedtke’s
works, scientific theories and inventions, a task to which I have
devoted myself since 1996, accompanied by intensive personal
conversations with Dieter Liedtke about his art, his inventions
and research results in physics”.
“For the first time in art history, statements expressed in Dieter
Liedtke’s artworks and theories have been acknowledged
decades after their creation and publication as research
results through research carried out by scientists with no previous
knowledge of his artworks; the researchers in question were
awarded 15 Nobel prizes in the fields of ‘medicine’, ‘physics’
and ‘economy’”.
“Thus Dieter Liedtke also draws a new image of physics and
biology, reveals a different conception of matter and DNA. His
approach to this and to the origin of the entire universe is information”.
“With his formula, which combines the quantum theory with
the theory of relativity and contains the law of conservation of
information, Dieter Liedtke vividly turns existing scientific theories
upside down in his artworks, providing revolutionary theories in
physics and astrophysics, the understanding of a new concept
of the universe”.

“With his formula, which combines the quantum theory with
the theory of relativity and contains the law of conservation of
information, Dieter Liedtke vividly turns existing scientific theories
upside down in his artworks, providing revolutionary theories in
physics and astrophysics, the understanding of a new concept
of the universe”.
“If I have understood him correctly - and that’s not always easy
- he has developed his theory so that the information is incorporated
in natural sciences as a physical variable. For him,
there are two sides to information, like quantum mechanics:
on the one hand, it is not subject to space, matter, or time, that
is, it exists simultaneously and everywhere, on the other hand,
it is manifested in energy or matter. By introducing the distinction
of information and the physical categorization of this strict
separation and based on the idea that both forms of information
merge into information clusters, information families or, as
he also calls them, “self-sustaining information networks” - and
in this context he assumes that these two forms of information
are interrelated by entanglements - it seems that in his theory
he has managed to extend Albert Einstein’s equation: E = MC2
into: i – E – MC2 (i = information)”.
“In this theory, the information is converted by the entanglements
and the growing information networks into space, gravitation,
energy and matter”.
“The works and theses of Liedtke are proactive, so that more
discoveries of scientists and art historians can be expected in
the works”.
“I can not predict which of his new physical theories will be
confirmed in the near future, because this requires additional
research results in the fields of physics, astrophysics and information,
but I assume that in the future researchers in quantum
physics will attach a new, theoretically and physically justified
importance to information for the origin of the universe and
that also Dieter Liedtke, in Harald Szeemann’s words, as an “inventor
artist”, has anticipated research in physics by decades in
his artworks”.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Schrey
Köln Technical University