“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 scientific processes or conditions. So Liedtke’s creative work is reminiscent 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 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