Acknowledgement

The patroness
Queen Sofia of Spain
and the patrons
Michael Gorbachev, Nobel laureate and
Dr. Norbert Blüm, Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany,
the scientific advisors, museum directors
as well as the co-organizers and sponsors of the
art formula exhibition art open 1999 in Essen
out of appreciation and gratitude
for their support, statements, reviews
art appraisals and the
valuable art loans for the exhibition
I have dedicated this, my most important book on the connection
the connection between art and freedom.

Dieter Walter Liedtke
The creativity of the population is the key to a sustainable
society of an ethical capitalism without exploitation.