Great photographs of Hungary and Budapest!
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Seasonal sketches outside the Hauptstadt!
Während die Urlauber am Meer Muscheln sammeln, können sie in den Außenbezirken von Berlin den Herbst sammeln.
Ich habe heute einiges gefunden und in meinem Hahnemühle Skizzenbuch festgehalten.
Nach getaner Arbeit habe ich die Modelle vor meinem Atelierfenster wieder ausgesetzt.
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Germany photo gallery
Very interesting -thanks for post!
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HANNS BOLZ
Another very interesting post including the portrait of Alfred Flechtheim.
Several great portraits of Flechtheim; lovely interiors!!
Chant d’automne
Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres ;
Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts !
J’entends déjà tomber avec des chocs funèbres
Le bois retentissant sur le pavé des cours.Tout l’hiver va rentrer dans mon être : colère,
Haine, frissons, horreur, labeur dur et forcé,
Et, comme le soleil dans son enfer polaire,
Mon cœur ne sera plus qu’un bloc rouge et glacé.
Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts !
J’entends déjà tomber avec des chocs funèbres
Le bois retentissant sur le pavé des cours.Tout l’hiver va rentrer dans mon être : colère,
Haine, frissons, horreur, labeur dur et forcé,
Et, comme le soleil dans son enfer polaire,
Mon cœur ne sera plus qu’un bloc rouge et glacé.
J’écoute en frémissant chaque bûche qui tombe
L’échafaud qu’on bâtit n’a pas d’écho plus sourd.
Mon esprit est pareil à la tour qui succombe
Sous les coups du bélier infatigable et lourd.
II me semble, bercé par ce choc monotone,
Qu’on cloue en grande hâte un cercueil quelque part.
Pour qui ? – C’était hier l’été ; voici l’automne !
Ce bruit mystérieux sonne comme un départ.
II
J’aime de vos longs yeux la lumière verdâtre,
Douce beauté, mais tout aujourd’hui m’est amer,
Et rien, ni votre amour, ni le boudoir, ni l’âtre,
Ne me vaut le soleil rayonnant sur la mer.
Et pourtant aimez-moi, tendre cœur ! soyez mère,
Même pour un ingrat, même pour un méchant ;
Amante ou sœur, soyez la douceur éphémère
D’un glorieux automne ou d’un soleil couchant.
Courte tâche ! La tombe attend – elle est avide !
Ah ! laissez-moi, mon front posé sur vos genoux,
Goûter, en regrettant l’été blanc et torride,
De l’arrière-saison le rayon jaune et doux !
An analysis of the poem is given in French at http://www.bacdefrancais.net/chant-d-automne-baudelaire.php
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Eugene Delacroix monument
Interesting statues in these city spaces-suitably romantic for Delacroix!
A unique and detailed moment dedicated to Eugene Delacroix, created by the artist Aime Jules Dalou.
More detail at; www.eutouring.com/images_jardin_du_luxembourg_8.html
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HERR TIETZ AND HIS GLOBE WAR
An interesting post -thanks for posting!!
Warenhaus Tietz in Leipziger Straße 46-49 opened on September 26, 1900 (exactly 116 years ago) as the first Tietz department store in Berlin.
Designed by the architect bureau of Lachmann & Zauber, with the facade created by Bernhard Sehring, it was an oversized gauntlet thrown to its biggest competitor, Wertheim, whose largely successful and then biggest department store in Europe stood at the other end of the street, at Leipziger Platz.
Soon the conflict between the two stores escalated and took on what can be described as a comical dimension: it was about the globe. Both companies used a globe as the symbol of their commercial success and both chose to install one on top of the building right over the entrance. Now both sought to win the exclusive right to the said globe as their symbol. Berlin press as well as the readers had splendid time following the developments…
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A very interesting and detailed article. Amazing to read how psychoanalysis has flourished again in South Africa after such an upheaval. Many thanks for posting!
The current exhibition in the Penlee Museum in Penzance lasts until 19th November and is certainly worth seeing for many reasons: its variety of styles, the contrasts between her life in Scotland and St Ives, the photographs, her green transparent glaciers and the more abstract endeavours of her later years. There are paintings which are reminiscent of Christopher Wood, bright touches that are reminiscent of Cezanne and the harmonies of Paul Klee can be glimpsed in the waves and beach scenes. 
The view above was painted in 1940 http://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/ -and features the Catholic Church on the left as well as the Church of St Ia almost in the middle. The buildings are vertically elongated which gives them an interesting attenuated quality, The grass of the Island and the roof tiles appear in orange against the predominate blue of the sea. The tide is half way in and the crane on the West Pier is just about visible.
Just a few years before, in early summer 1937, much the same scene was painted by Sir Stanley Spencer. It is interesting to compare the resulting works.
The foreground in Spencer’s painting show palm trees and in general the perspective is given a detailed treatment. There is a large boat alongside the pier. The West Pier is shown in full from this angle and the Island and Downalong shown in considerable detail. The tide level is just a little further inshore. The Mariner’s Church and slipway are both clearly delineated. Spencer became a member of the St Ives Society of Artists. He painted other pictures of the town including this atmospheric painting evidently from the promenade.
Here too is a painting showing the coluration of the rocks and fishing boats equipped with sails along with the coast beyond Hayle in the background. Perhaps painted from the rocks on the town side of Porthgwidden. The lighthouse at Godrevy as made famous by Virginia Woolf in 1927.
Barns- Graham excels in her sketches which are often interesting in their composition and dabs of spare but effective colour. The palette of yellow against grey below shows this in a view crested by The Island.
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