German Artist Gabriele Stötzer Survived Prison, Censorship, and the Stasi

German Artist Gabriele Stötzer Survived Prison, Censorship, and the Stasi

On the banks of a glacial river high in the Swiss Alps, in a subterranean stone room among the remnants of a 12th-century Benedictine monastery, one can find the photographs of Gabriele Stötzer.The images are small and rudimentary, often overexposed and frayed at the edges. The artist is young, often unclothed, her body bound in lacerating twine or covered in a clear, viscous fluid. She painted directly onto portraits of herself or her friends; …