10/04/2025
A couch is never just a couch. Since the 1980s, Horst Wackerbarth’s Red Couch has absorbed the weight of human experience—a silent witness to countless lives, culture and stories. Each sitting shifts its meaning. Each portrait reframes our shared existence.
THE WORLD OF embodies this continuum, where stories unfold, impressions linger, and moments transcend time.
Credits
’The Red Couch’ (1979 onwards) by Horst Wackerbarth
1. Edwin Moses, world hurdler, Irvine, California, USA 1983
2. Frank Fool’s Crow, Oglala Lakota chief and medicine man, South Dakota Badlands, USA 1982
3. Lord Menuhin, Yehudi, Violinist and conductor reading a score by Bach, Rainham, Essex, Great Britain 1998
4. Hostel for the Homeless, Detroit, USA 1983
5. Tadaaki Kuwayama, Minimal-Artist, Duesseldorf, Germany 1998
6. Ma*****na Growers, Los Angeles, California, USA 1984
7. Steve Jobs, Apple Computers, Cupertino-Fremont, California, USA 1984
8. Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaksa, USA 1984
Wackerbarth, H. Vereinigte Stateen, 1984. Digital photograph.
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