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
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!
Kirchner is discussed interestingly in Florian Ilse book “1913” -great posting!
These look worth investigating further:-
Nice combination of imagery!
Another indication of an escalation-very concerning.
Some great photographs from Vienna!
Been discovering Verlaine
Another election needing to be carefully watched. Thanks for posting
Hillary Clinton is all over the news, with the occurrences at the 9/11 memorial.But as I’ve mentioned I’m also following the Austrian election very interested.
Some days ago the next failure in this never ending election led to a postponement, and again the postal vote is in the center of the events. This time it happened before they even voted.
The glue that sealed the envelopes of the postal votes failed. Several voters noticed opening envelopes and that would mean invalid votes. And a number of invalid votes because of irregular envelopes would make the whole election invalid.
Because the part of the postal voters was over 10%, a legally correct election would not be possible, and so the election was moved back two month. Alexander Van der Bellen, the candidate from the “Greens” supported this, while his opponent Norbert Hofer was against this decision, because he believes that…
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