#Hermann Vogel

[enchantedbook]

'Metzengerstein' from Edgar Allan Poe's Tale illustrated by Hermann Vogel, 1884

[lux-vitae]

Brutus’ Suicide After the Second Battle of Philippi by Hermann Vogel (1878)

[illustratus]

The Death of Spartacus by Hermann Vogel

[random-brushstrokes]

Hermann Vogel - Metzengerstein (1884)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Kinder und Hausmaerchen der Brueder Grimm (sic)

Ca. 1895

Artist : Hermann Vogel

[cmonbartender]

Cinderella (1893) - Hermann Vogel

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Hermann Vogel - The miser.

[walzerjahrhundert]

Hans am Ende

“Gänseblümchenparade”, from left to right: Heinrich Vogeler, Fritz Overbeck, Hans Müller-Brauel (archaeologist and local historian), Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn und Hermann Allmers (writer)

1895

[samirafee]

#HÄNSEL UND GRETEL by GRIMM‘S TALES - THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE

@samirafee

[welldonekhushi]

Feels like I haven't sent asks in AGES, so!

What are the heights of each of your OC's?

Okay sooo, I'm going to go with my main OC's in this case. Revealed under the cut!

First is for my soldier OC's through the chart! Arjun has the longest height of the two, and Scarlet with the shortest.

Meanwhile, Katya has a moderate height, along with the rest of her teammates in the group.

And if I also mention my demon OC's, the Drevis brothers, Axel is only three inches less than his older brother, Adrian. But height doesn't matter when it comes to who shows more responsibility 😂

Lastly, the Der Drei Deutsche. Wow, how can I forget about them? So, General Kaiser has the longest height, around 177 cm. Meanwhile Heinrich and Aleksandr have an average and normal height.

Well, these are the height charts of my OC's, hope you found it interesting <3

[xphaiea]

Hermann Vogel • from Der Deutsche Märchenwald, 1891

[thaminho]

How Dreamcatcher’s ‘Demian’ took inspiration from Hermann Hesse’s 1917 novel of the same name

A short lyrical analysis by thaminho (~700 words)

Just looking at the title alone makes it easy enough, for someone who knows the book, to come to the conclusion that it had to have been an inspiration while writing the lyrics, although it still took me a day to make that connection, but what exactly are the thematic and textual parallels?

To start off here’s a quick summary of Hesse’s novel Demian (it’s extremely short and leaves out details not relevant for this analysis):

The book follows the protagonist Emil Sinclair’s life from his early school years up until young adulthood. He starts off as having a strict dialectical world-view: His secure and familiar home-life represents the proper and devout, the unfamiliar, forbidden and sinful side however seems more alluring to him; Sinclair is first confronted with this second side by being bullied in school.

Eventually an older student, Max Demian, saves him from this situation and becomes a sort of mentor figure for him. Over time, guided by Demian, Sinclair begins questioning the current antiquated world-views and societal norms, straying more and more from Christianity/Christian purity. While meeting more like-minded individuals he realizes, that a fundamental, societal shift of the whole system has to happen and that it can only happen through its destruction and eventual rebirth.

Trying to find his own path in life, free from conditioned thinking and biases, still guided by Demian (among others) this shift happens: The First World War breaks out. Demian and Sinclair both get recruited and wounded in battle. Seeing Demian pass away Sinclair realizes he doesn’t need him as external guidance anymore, he has become one with him, having taken an important step of individuation.

Now to compare the book plot to the song lyrics. As reference I used my own translation of the song which you can also find on my blog or through the link at the bottom of this post; the text in 'air-quotes' are literal quotes from that translation.

In both works you can find a personal plot line as well as an over-arching more general one; I’ll start with the former:

As in the beginning of the novel the speaker of the song is in a miserable situation, their ‘mind obscured’, and looks towards a Demian to guide them (Verse 1: ‘Stay with me tonight this is a nightmare’). They want him to ‘stay with [them] forever’ until ‘the end of the world’ because they are ‘only filled with rage’ and need guidance.

However, they are hinting at a future without someone to guide them by implying their Demian ‘seem[s] like a fantasy’ but will disappear eventually, as ‘reality is spiteful’, thereby referencing Demian’s death and the speakers need to find their own path alone, which in the situation the speaker is currently in still seems unachievable.

Interwoven between these verses are the ones referencing the novel’s more general plot of societal change: They need to ‘break this elaborate [system]’ in order for it to change, this dysfunctional system putting people in ‘difficult situations’ that make them ‘corrupt each other’, where there is ‘evil growing on its own’.

While in the novel the system refers to an extremely traditionalistic, Christian puritan culture devoid of any so-called earthly pleasures, room for creative development and ultimately humanity, the system in this song might refer to the pollution of earth as driver for climate change, thereby tying the song to the rest of Dreamcatcher’s Apocalypse albums. That’s also the reason for the appeal-like verses telling the listeners directly never to stop fighting as small action are all it takes to continue (see Verse 2).

Lastly the line ‘breaking the egg’ in the pre-chorus might seem weird at first or like a translation error, however it is directly referencing the most famous quote of the novel.

„Der Vogel kämpft sich aus dem Ei. Das Ei ist die Welt. Wer geboren werden will, muss eine Welt zerstören“, which translates to

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who wants to be born has to destroy a world”

It symbolizes the epiphany, that the necessary massive societal change is tied to an equally massive sacrifice at the expense of the current system. While in the novel the anachronistic, stiffly conservative culture is destroyed by the First World War, one can only imagine what kind of destruction event the lyricist of this song had in mind for the current capitalism-based pollution system.

[lux-vitae]

The Death of Spartacus by Hermann Vogel (1882)

[saax2]

Animali

A snow storm, 1891 ca. | William Edward Stott (1855-1918, England)

Cavallo bianco (white horse), 1634-1638 | Diego Velázquez (1599-1660, España)

L’amazzone (Alice Regnault), 1878 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milano) | Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931, Italia)

Le comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1883 (Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst) | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, France)

Die katze (the cat), 1901 | Hans Thoma (1839-1924, Germany)

The races at Longchamp, 1866 (Art Institute Chicago) | Édouard Manet (1832-1883, France)

Course à obstacle; le jockey tombé (il fantino caduto), 1866 | Edgar Degas (1834-1917, France)

Pushkin in the village, 1899 | Valentin Serov (1865-1911, Russia)

Prospectus en russe pour la réouverture du cabaret Chat Noir, 1896 | Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923, Switzerland)

Cocorico | Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923, Switzerland)

Cortile in Banditella, 1895 ca. | Raffaello Gambogi (1874-1943, Italia)

Metzengerstein, 1884 - from Edgar Allan Poe's Tale | Hermann Vogel (1854-1921, Germany)

Cheval au pas | Edgar Degas (1834-1917, France)

Jokey | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, France)

La signorina Rita Tibolla, La signorina col cane (Lady with dog), 1904-05 | Giulio Ettore Erler (1876-1964, Italia)

Signora con cane (Ritorno dalle corse) - Lady with dog (Return from racing), 1878 | Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884, Italia)

The Raven (Il Corvo), 1971 | David Inshaw (1943, England)

La Dama con l'ermellino, 1488-90 (Museo Czartoryski, Cracovia) | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italia)

Elena di Montenegro (1873-1952, Montenegro), regina d'Italia (queen of Italy) | San Rossore, Tuscany, 1900 ca.

 Il dromedario (The dromedary), 1870-75 | Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908, Italia)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918, Austria)

[magdalena-fuchs]

Persönlich finde ich, dass das Hermann Vogel Haus im Herbst am allerschönsten ist und durch die farbigen Laubbäume rundherum so richtig in Szene gebracht wird. 😍🍂

Mein Feed zeigt zwar schon ein paar Bilder davon aber irgendwie kann ich einfach nicht genug bekommen. 😅

[schorschidk]

Kalender - Bilder aus Norddeutschland 1998 der Vereinsbank (Vereins- und Westbank AG) mit den Inhalten: - Friedrich Kallmorgen: Januarabend im Hamburger Hafen, 1901- Wind und Wetter- Hermann Kauffmann. Nach der Sturmflut, 1839- Franz Radziwill: Raureif am Fortgraben, 1925- Eduard Schmidt: Schiffbruch vor der Küste Helgolands, 1854- Willy Jaeckel: Dünen auf Hiddensee, 1929/30- Otto Modersohn: Fischerhuder Landschaft im Mai, 1911- Emil Nolde: Hohe Sturzwelle, 1948- Otto Mueller: Sommertag, 1921/22- Walter Gramatte: Gewitter über dem Meer - Ahrenshoop, 1924- Adolph Menzel: Gewitter am Tempelhofer Berg, 1846- Caspar David Friedrich: Der Morgen, um 1820/21- Julius von Ehren: Regenwetter, um 1907- Heinrich Vogeler: Barkenhoff, um 1914- Rückseite: Wind und Wetter in NorddeutschlandMaße: 34 x 33 cm