Fascinating painter-great courage and integrity!
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JOACHIM RINGELNATZ
Just before the outbreak of the First World War, Lovis Corinth was at the peak of his career, and with his wife Charlotte and their two young children, was enjoying everything that Berlin had to offer. He had also worked hard: by the end of 1911, he had painted more than three hundred substantial works in oils.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), The Model’s Break (1909), oil on canvas, 60 × 42 cm, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.
Corinth seized the moment during The Model’s Break (1909) to capture a more informal and natural full-length portrait of her. This is not an uncommon ruse, which has resulted in some excellent paintings by other artists, and worked well for him too. This was exhibited in the 1913 exhibition of the Berlin Secession.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Ice Rink in the Berlin Tiergarten (1909), oil on canvas, 64 × 90 cm, Private collection…
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Thanks-some lovely sketches-it must be quite cold there now!
Arsenal, Venedig war im 15. Jahrhundert mit 16.000 Arbeitern die größte Schiffbaustädte der Welt.
Einfahrt des alten venezianischen Hafen Arsenal (c) Foto von Michael Fanke
In der kleinen Welt um Arsenal wurden Alte und Kranke versorgt und es gab ein eigenes Schulsystem. Es standen sogar Werkswohnungen für die Beschäftigten zur Verfügung. Es wurden neben den Schiffen auch Waffen und Reiseproviant hergestellt.
Venedig 2016 (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun
Heute ist Arsenal eine Industrieruine, der Zugang zum Gelände ist nichtsdestotrotz sehenswert, das Tor ist 1460 gebaut worden und eines der ersten Renaissancebauten Venedigs. Die Marmorlöwen wurden aus Piräus, Athen und Delos erbeutet.
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Quelle: Henning, Christoph, Venedig, Ostfildern 2015, S. 74.
Another very interesting painter!
Since Corinth had joined the Berlin Secession in 1901, and two years later married Charlotte Berend, his career had not looked back. Although early family and social life had reduced the number of paintings he produced, their quality remained consistently high, and he was living up to his reputation as ‘the painter of flesh’.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), The Childhood of Zeus (1905-6), oil on canvas, 120 × 150 cm, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.
The Childhood of Zeus (1905-6) shows Zeus, the senior god among the Greek pantheon, as a young boy at its centre. According to various myths, he was the son of the Titans Cronus (not Chronos, personification of time) and Rhea. Cronus swallowed his other children, so to save Zeus from that fate, Rhea gave birth to him in Crete, and handed Cronus a rock disguised as a baby, which he promptly swallowed.
Rhea then…
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A happy vicar I might have been
Two hundred years ago
To preach upon eternal doom
And watch my walnuts grow;
But born, alas, in an evil time,
I missed that pleasant haven,
For the hair has grown on my upper lip
And the clergy are all clean-shaven.
And later still the times were good,
We were so easy to please,
We rocked our troubled thoughts to sleep
On the bosoms of the trees.
All ignorant we dared to own
The joys we now dissemble;
The greenfinch on the apple bough
Could make my enemies tremble.
But girl’s bellies and apricots,
Roach in a shaded stream,
Horses, ducks in flight at dawn,
All these are a dream.
It is forbidden to dream again;
We maim our joys or hide them:
Horses are made of chromium steel
And little fat men shall ride them.
I am the worm who never turned,
The eunuch without a harem;
Between the priest and the commissar
I walk like Eugene Aram;
And the commissar is telling my fortune
While the radio plays,
But the priest has promised an Austin Seven,
For Duggie always pays.
I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls,
And woke to find it true;
I wasn’t born for an age like this;
Was Smith? Was Jones? Were you?
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This appears in a new collection and their is a witty comment at https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/nov/04/love-george-orwell-never-read-poems-poetry
It somehow reminds me of a favourite poem by Louis Mac Neice in its energetic and upbeat tempo- Bagpipe Music. Perhaps it is not surprising that Mac Neice sounds so much like Auden-but it certainly surprised me!
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ALEXANDER KANOLDT
Even more fascinating work!!!
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LYONEL FEININGER
Love the colours and elongated perspective!
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RUTH ORKIN
More brilliant photographs!!
Worth looking at this famous poem by WHAuden-https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/memory-sigmund-freud
Jeder hat eine Vorstellung von Freud.
Mein Vorstellung von Siegmund Freud (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun
Im Fach Philosophie habe ich das Seminar “Siegmund Freud – Philosophische Lektüren” belegt.
Das Seminar ist mit 70 Studenten überbelegt. So wie dieses Semester alle Seminare in allen Fächern überbelegt sind. Schade! Jedoch machen die Dozenten und Studenten das Beste daraus.
Ich nähere mich Freud in der mir üblichen Weise: ich zeichne ihn und höre dabei einen Beitrag von arte zu Freud (siehe hier). Unser Thema nächste Woche werden die Studien zur Hysterie sein und ich habe noch einige Seiten Lektüre vor mir. Aber ich mag meinen weichen, sanften Einstieg zum Thema.
Natürlich kann mir Freud nicht Modell sitzen und mir stehen nur die Fotos zur Verfügung, die ein jeder von ihm kennt und die Mr. Google auch gleich in der Ergebnisliste meiner Suchanfrage anzeigt. Trotzdem gebe ich der Zeichnung meine Handschrift…
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