Wilhelm Morgner Astrale Komposition VII. Öl auf Karton, 1912

Emil Bartoschek (1899-1968) Abstrakte Komposition

Paul Kälberer Blick ins Glatttal im Winter (vom Wohnzimmerfenster aus) [ca. 1943]

So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄 HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats. Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.

Photography of Walter Bondy, painting on the terrace of the Pavilion bleu at St.Cloud, ca. 1907, and the corresponding picture, cf. ecoledeparis.org/fr/walter-bo...

Jules Pascin, 'Walter Bondy portraying Rudolf Levy' Drawing 1906

Carlo Mense (1886 - 1965) Selbstbildnis 1918/19

Rudolf Großmann (1882 - 1941) Selbstportrait mit Zigarette (Dry point etching, about 1904)

Rudolf Levy (1875 - 1944) Selbstbildnis IV (1943)

Albert Weisgerber (1878 - 1915) Letztes Selbstbildnis im Jahr 1914

Albert Weisgerber (1878 - 1915) Self portrait, 1908

Albert Weisgerber (1875 - 1944) Portrait of Rudolf Levy, 1906

Shoutout to WHO for confirming (again) that vaccines don’t cause autism. Shoutout to ACIP for… whatever it is they’re doing. Performance art? www.who.int/news/item/11...

Willi Müller-Hufschmid (1890 - 1966) Selbstbildnis 1945-47

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.

Joseph Kayne, Winter Solstice

Friedrich Nietzsche arbeitete von 1860 bis Mitte 1861, dem Jahr seiner Konfirmation, an einem Weihnachtsoratorium. Knapp 50 Manuskriptseiten dieses unvollendet gebliebenen Werks sind überliefert und befinden sich im #GSA_Weimar.

Romantic Landscapes (21.1/n) #Waterloo #Scott #RomanticLandscapes Walter Scott visited the battlefield already 9 August 1815 and his poem 'The Field of Waterloo' was published 23 October 1815.

Dem 21.12. sah Goethe immer als willkommenen Wendpunkt freudig entgegen: Ab nun würde es wieder heller werden. Dass er die Dunkelheit der Wintermonate nicht gut vertrug, geht auch aus einem Gedichtbrief an Charlotte v. Stein hervor: Der ich, wie sonst, in Sonnenferne, Im Stillen liebe, leide, lerne.

Oskar Fischer "Der liebe Scherenschleifer" 1918

Georg Scholz, "Kakteen und Semaphore" 1923

Egon Itta Untitled. (Stilleben mit Kakteen und Südfrüchten), 1926 Transition to _Neue Sachlichkeit_ after the "Rih" group: Walter Becker, Oskar Fischer, Egon Itta, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz, Eugen Segewitz & Wladimir Zabotin.

Anonymous, Kenau Simonsdr Hasselaer, c. 1590-c. 1609, oil on panel, 34.8 x 26.5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Context in comments

Romantic Landscapes (29) #Cathedrals #Klingemann #RomanticLandscapes The 10th Nightwatch of Bonaventura evokes a moonlit gothic cathedral in a nocturnal cityscape. The picture is already conventional by 1804, the date of the 1st publication, but the sardonic humour of the scene is uncommon.

《#古文觀止 心術》而用之，彼將不與吾校；吾之所短，吾蔽而置之，彼強與吾角，奈何？曰：吾之所短，吾抗而暴之，使之疑而卻；吾之所長，吾陰而養之，使之狎而墮其中，此用長短之術也。

A singular page out of Henri Michaux’s _Ideograms in China_, translated by Gustaf Sobin. “No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.” And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”

Romantic Landscapes (28) #HauntedHouses #CastleofOtranto #Walpole #Thames Ancient haunted palaces & abbeys, ruins and ancient houses - prefigured in the gothic novels, here, Horace Walpole's _Castle of Otranto_ 1764 - inspired by his private nightmare, dreamed up at Strawberry Hill House.

Hans Brass (1885 - 1959) Komposition, 1919 Second wave of expressionist artists, almost lost in collective memory, but also actively suppressed, and many works destroyed.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

...It's as though she's reading a letter from a loved one...

that was before Robert wrote his op 44 and after Fanny wrote this fugue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ein Grundriss von Adornos Denken über Ästhetik: In Auseinandersetzung mit den Künsten sowie mit gesellschaftskritischem Blick auf das Kulturgeschehen entfaltet er in dieser fulminaten Vorlesung die zentralen Begrifflichkeiten seiner bahnbrechenden ästhetischen Theorie. Out today!

The best exhibition we've been to all year: a huge retrospective of the Franco-Swiss artist Félix Vallotton, marking the 100th anniversary of his death, at the MCBA in Lausanne: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro.... Pictured: Sur la plage, 1899, Private collection

In very narrow pores this layering is the norm close to the walls. How thick the structured layer is will depend on the wetting behaviour. Anyway, it's nice to see that this 40-year-old work is still relevant 😁 pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

Romantic Landscapes (27) #Space #Byron #Cain #RomanticLandscapes In Byron's mystery play _Cain_ an unseen landscape, the infinite, primordial, or even metaphysical space, is the scene for this religious drama: Lucifer shows Cain the Earth from very far away -

Romantic Landscapes (22.2/n) #North #AvImhoff #AvHelvig #Ossian Enchanted lake with mist & snow - Ossianic mood. Musen-Almanach 1799.

Ferruccio Busoni at the Piano Dry point etching, 1916 by Max Oppenheimer

Der heute freigelassene Politologe und Literaturwissenschaftler Akeksandr Feduta wurde im April 2021 verhaftet. Unfassbar, wie vier Jahre in den Straflagern der Lukaschenka-Diktatur in Belarus einen Menschen verändern können.

BIG’s La MECA in Bordeaux twists architecture into motion, a monumental loop that fuses art, culture, and urban life along the Garonne River.

Marthe 'Tour' Donas (1885 - 1967) www.marthedonas.be

In the avant-garde, only dilettantes can move forward - no possibilty to encounter pros in the cutting edge.

Romantic Landscapes (20.4/n) #Rhine #KvGünderrode #RomanticLandscapes Karoline von Günderrode writes a letter from a travel along the Rhine - the itinerary and date (between 1801 and 1803) are uncertain - with some 'bad verses' :

This is the earliest known representation of the potato plant in Western and Central Europe. Drawn in 1587 by artist unknown. Held in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. You're welcome.

339 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Chamosite: - An iron-rich member of the chlorite group - Forms in metamorphosed iron deposits - Named after the type locality Chamoson in Valais, Switzerland #minerals

342 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Kröhnkite: - A hydrated copper sulphate mineral - Forms in the oxidised zone of copper deposits, usually in arid environments - Named after Johann Berthold Christian Kröhnke (1832-1915), a German chemist who first analysed the it #minerals #MineralMonday

Romantic Landscapes (12.5) #MontBlanc #MWShelley #RomanticLandscapes Mary Shelley describes the Mont Blanc in her _History of a Six Weeks' Tour_ -

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994

Georg Baumgarten, Der Fechter 1922 China ink drawing.

If anyone tried to paint a social media pile-on, it might look like this - Scorn by Georg Baumgarten (1923). Can’t find much info on artist, writer & pianist Baumgarten - would like to know more. He, his wife & daughter were killed in April 1945 during the last air raids on Berlin #art #WeimarArt

Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, epic scale Snow Drawings - Briancon, France, 2014 #womensart