#(Heinrich Gustav)

[diioonysus]

under the moonlight

[opera-ghosts]

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: On October 29, 1902, Gustav Mahler conducted the premiere of a new production of Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots" at the Imperial and Royal Court Opera Theater in Vienna. The male lead role of Raoul de Nangis was sung by the Austrian tenor Leo Slezak (1873-1946). The beautiful costume designs were created by the painter and stage designer Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919).

[mercuriicultores]

1879-1885, Gustav Heinrich Eberlein, Dornauszieher (Boy removing a thorn)

[majestativa]

What would have happened if what lived in the hearts of the greatest individuals – Nicolaus Cusanus, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, and Campanella – would have entered the hearts of everyone? […] What if the old and the new had met and intermingled, spirit with blood, and blood with spirit?

— Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader, transl Gabriel Kuhn, (2010)

[juergenfeytiat]

Offiziere dreier Schiffe

Auf Rottnest Island (West-Australien) Vor einigen Wochen hatte ich hier im Blog die Aufnahme von Schiffsoffizieren des Dampfers „Reichenbach“ der Deutsch-Australischen Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft vorgestellt: Die Offiziere der „Reichenbach“ und Kapitän Peters‘ tragisches Ende Heute haben wir die Offiziere von drei Schiffen zusammen in einer schönen Gruppenaufnahme, wenngleich die Herren nicht…

[thebotanicalarcade]

n136_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Reichenbachia :. St. Albans [England] :N.Y. [i.e. New York] :F. Sander ;R.B. Young,1892-1894.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35543585

[clawmarks]

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa - Band I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae und Monocotyledones - Gustav Hegi - 1906 - via Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

[pasdetrois]

like eve before you

George Frederic Watts, Eve Tempted (detail) • Vievee Francis, "Apologia" • Edmund Blair Leighton, The Keys (detail) • Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives • Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber" • Heinrich Aldegrever, Adam and Eve • Gustave Doré, Illustration for "Blue Beard" • Paul Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleue • Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer • Hans Baldung Grien, Eve, Serpent and Death • Erika Steiskal, Illustration for "The Bloody Chamber"

[germanpostwarmodern]

During the 1950s and 1960s the German Ruhr region was a hotbed of abstract art: artists like Emil Schumacher, Heinrich Siepmann and Gustav Deppe rekindled with the avant-garde and sought to make up for the anti-modern times of National Socialism and war. A lesser-known exponent of abstract art was Hans Kaiser (1914-1982), born in Bochum, autodidact and since 1950 residing in Soest, a middle-sized town on the outskirts of the Ruhr region. Up until his death Soest remained the center of his life and it is also here that he inscribed himself in many ways into the town’s face, most prominently in the form of different stained glass windows for the St. Patrokli church.

Stylistically Kaiser went through a number of changes but one aspect of his style remained persistent, namely a calligraphic, writing-like fastidiousness that is present in both his abstract works and in his portrait drawings.

In 2014 the Kunstmuseum Bochum under the title „Hans Kaiser - Imaginäre Räume“ dedicated an exhibition to Kaiser’s so-named „Losschreibung“, i.e. the development of his specific artistic language: as a result of the disentanglement from the image and the simultaneous discovery of writing as the form of conveying the meaning of words Kaiser created imaginary spaces that point beyond language and meaning. The accompanying catalogue in an impressive selection of works from the 1960s up until the 1980s documents Kaiser’s development of imaginary spaces on canvas and paper and demonstrates how the writing-like elements gradually give way to ever deeper spaces made up of colors alone.

In his portrait drawings, as shown in Erich Franz’s catalogue from 2003, Kaiser in turn dissolves the seeming contradiction of abstraction and object by letting the pen „write“ itself into the drawing, a modus operandi that creates obvious parallels between the portraits and abstract works: in both cases writing-like structures provide a self-determined dynamic that is unique to Kaiser’s post 1957 works. At the same time the drawings, unlike the paintings, incorporate the white of the sheet paper and activate them as integrative to the overall dynamic of the portrait and show that Kaiser was in no way afraid of the blank space.

Against the background of the previously discussed qualities and characteristics discussed of Hans Kaiser’s art it is irritating that he is still relatively unknown beyond Soest and the Ruhr region…

[his-heart-hymns]

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were born, he laughingly replied: To realize how much better it were not to be born.

-The Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Khud hi hain baes-e-takleef ham apne liye,

na ham hotay, na dil hota, na dil-azaariyan hoti.

-Akbar

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

-Heinrich Heine

na tha kuch toh khuda tha, kuch na hota toh khuda hota

duboyaa mujh ko hone ne, na hota main to kya hota.

-Mirza Ghalib

[hadrian6]

Ganymede. 19th.century. Gustav Heinrich Naeke. German, 1786 - 1835. oil/canvas.       http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[diioonysus]

women in art: helen of troy

[sexymonstersupercreep]

Nightmare Fuel Art Master-post, Vol. I

Regularly updated!

15th Century

Gerard David Hans Holbein Hans Memling Hieronymous Bosch Lucas Cranach the Elder Matthias Grunewald Titian

16th Century

Adriaen van de Venne Artemisia Gentileschi Filippo Napoletano Hans Baldung Grien Herri Met de Bles Jacopo Ligozzi Jan Mandijn Jan Massys Pieter Bruegel the Elder

17th Century

Caravaggio Francesco Furini Frans Francken II Juan de Valdes Leal Jusepe de Ribera Leonaert Bramer Peter Paul Rubens Salvator Rosa 18th Century

Edvard Munch Francisco de Goya Henry Fuseli J.M.W. Turner Karl Alexander Wilke Katsushika Hokusai Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini William Blake

19th Century

Amedee-Ernest Lynen Antoine Wiertz Armand Rassenfosse Arnold Bocklin Carlos Schwabe Edmond Louis Dupain Felicien Rops Francesco Scaramuzza Franz von Stuck Georges Rochegrosse George Frederic Watts Gustave Dore Gustave Moreau Henri Regnault Ilya Repin Jakub Schikaneder James Tissot Jean Francois Millet Jean Leon Gerome Jean Paul Laurens Jean Veber Jeno Gyarfas Jose Casado del Alisal Laszlo Mednyanszky Louis Gallait Maximilian Pirner Odilon Redon Paul Burck Theodore Gericault Theodor Kittelsen Theophile Schuler Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Wilhelm Kotarbinski William Holbrook Beard Witold Wojtkiewicz

“Turn of the Century” Alberto Martini Alfred Kubin Antonio Rizzi Egon Schiele Frantisek Kupka Fritz Gareis Georges Desvallieres Harry Clarke Heinrich Kley Henryk Weyssenhoff James Ensor Jaroslav Panuska Jean Delville Josef Mandl Julien Adolphe-Duvocelle Kathe Kollwitz Manuel Orazi Marian Wawrzeniecki Oscar Parviainen Piotr Stachiewicz Richard Tennant Cooper Sascha Schneider Sergius Hruby Wladyslaw Podkowinski Vasily Vereshchagin

[myfoodsflowers]

Dendrobium parishii 🥀🌺☘ Is a species of orchid native to Asia. It was named by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in honor of botanist and plant collector Charles Parish in 1863. It is native to the Eastern Himalayas, China and Indochina

[farmerbebop]

I have no idea why I'm doing this but here's McGoohan as paintings.

In order of appearance:

Goethe in the Roman Campagna (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein)

Jacob's Dream (José de Ribera)

The Bitter Potion (Adriaen Brouwer)

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (details) (Jusepe de Ribera)

St. Sebastian Tended by St. Irene (Francesco del Cairo)

Saint Sebastian Cured by Saint Irene (Luca Giordano)

The Happy Warrior (George Frederick Watts)

Young Man at His Window (Gustave Caillebotte)

Sir Henry Bate Dudley (Thomas Gainsborough)

The Merry Drinker (Frans Hals)

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 10 November 1944 13 members of the Ehrenfeld anti-Nazi resistance group were hanged in the street in Cologne by the Gestapo. Those killed were named Hans Steinbrück, Gustav Bermel, Johann Müller, Franz Rheinberger, Adolf Schütz, Bartholomäus Schink, Günther Schwarz, Roland Lorent, Peter Hüppeler, Josef Moll, Wilhelm Kratz, Heinrich Kratina and Johann Krausen. Steinbrück had escaped from a concentration camp and formed a resistance group based in the suburb of Ehrenfeld. He had stockpiled a number of weapons, and with others had shot several police officers. Six of those executed were working class youths, members of the nationwide underground group the Edelweiss Pirates, which was an anti-authoritarian alternative to the Hitler Youth. There were over 3,000 Pirates in Cologne alone, including Schink, who shirked at work, fought running battles with young Nazis, and carried out acts of sabotage against the military, like assassinating the head of the Cologne Gestapo. Learn more about the pirates and related groups in our podcast episode 4: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/04/04/wch4-anti-nazi-youth-movements-in-world-war-ii/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2131407660377706/?type=3