Gustav Kampmann (1859 - 1917) 'Nachtanfang' painting undated - around 1900

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday. Glass of 2018 by Tom Denny in St Felix, Felixstowe, Suffolk shows Christ as the Divine Mercy. Denny notes that his glass is 'on the theme of The Divine Mercy visions experienced by St Faustina, a Polish nun who had extraordinary encounters with Christ in the 1930s'.

But wait - there's a rare form of feldspar made of *barium* aluminosilicate. It has screw axes and glide planes, so its space group is not a semidirect product! It’s an extension of ℤ³ by the point group P that gives a nonzero element of H²(P, ℤ³). 🎉 johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/f...

Gustav Kampmann (1859 - 1917) 'Sonniges Waldtal mit Bach' painting ca. 1909

Paul Hey (1867 - 1952) 'Am Waldrand' postcard 1900s

I have been inspired by Loiner artist Christopher P. Wood's 'Meteor Hunter' series to write some poems. Meteors are often seen as portents but finding this Glen Baxter cartoon seemed especially prescient.

Alfred Helberger (1871-1946) Norwegian Landscape 1919

Richard Müller (1874-1954) 'Bogenschütze IV' etching 1920

So the chain of events: Velvet worm gets ANGRY. 🐛😠 Sprays protein-rich liquid through nozzles. 💦 Proteins cross-link into a hardening plastic.🕸️ Velvet worm catches & feasts, often eating its own goo as well. 👄 It would be easier to be horrified if they didn't look like little fuzzy-wuzzy guys:

Hans Otto Schönleber (1889 - 1930) [Grove at the Sea] woodcut 1920s Schönleber, son of the painter Gustav Schönleber, studies medicine. After his experiences of WW I, he starts a career as graphical artist. At the 1929 _Stuttgarter Sezession_ exhibition he presents a woodcut 'Gehölz am Meer'.

Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in the post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Jo Mihàly (i.e. Elfriede Steckel, née Elfriede Alice Kuhr; 1902 - 1989) Title and illustration for 'Ballade vom Elend' Verlag der Vagabunden Stuttgart 1929 [ paper cut-outs by the author]

Drawing on the Halle Reports and New Halle Reports, he shows how the Tranquebar missionaries documented and negotiated these interdenominational encounters, while also relying on Catholic linguistic groundwork in Tamil and other local languages. 📖 Find out more: ghil.hypotheses.org/... 2/3

Otto Valentien (1897 - 1987) After retirement as garden designer, he returns to painting and develops a landscape-inspired abstract art. kunstmuseum-laende.de/otto-valenti...

Otto Valentien (1897 - 1987) 'Frühlingsstimmung im Herrenhäuser Großen Garten' in 'Die Gartenkunst' vol. 36/37 (1923/24) p.33 Valentien also writes in the 1920 about 'Garden Expressionism', an idea transparent in his illustrations for his many publications on garden design.

Otto Valentien (1897 - 1987) Travel sketches for an article on roof gardens in 'Die Gartenkunst' vol. 42 (1929) p.56 The landscape gardener Valentien has a picture in the 1928 exhibition of the _Stuttgarter Sezession_ and uses modern styles for his illustrations about gardening in the 1920s.

Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋 #ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Max Radler (1904 - 1971) 'Der Radiohörer' 1930 sammlungonline.muenchner-stadtmuseum.de/objekt/der-r...

Kurt Günther (1893 - 1955) 'Der Radionist' 1927 www.bildindex.de/document/obj...

Erich Fraaß (1893 - 1974) 'Sonne über Felder bei Dresden' ca. 1925 - 1930

#Exposition " Madame de Sévigné. Lettres parisiennes ", au Musée Carnavalet (Paris). ➡️ www.carnavalet.paris.fr/expositions/...

Kurt Weinhold (1896 – 1965) 'Mann mit Radio (homo sapiens)' 1929

Walter Conz (1872 - 1947) [Still life with a doll in a red & fancy rokokko costume] undated

Walter Conz (1872 - 1947) photopraphy ca. 1904 Self portrait etching around 1900

Why are libraries often brutalist? r/brutalism

Kiskunhalas, Drávakeresztúr, Zajta, Barcs, Kőszeg, Nagylak, Mátészalka, Tornanádaska, Bánréve... I have spent a *lot* of time in Hungary on #CrossBorderRail, and - despite the politics of it - I like it, somehow And damn these places need better politics than they're getting just now!

#OTD 7 April 1836: death of #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, & many other works speaking truth to power; head of one of Britain's leading literary families; writer of 1500 astonishing letters – Vol. IV: 1816-1828 due out from OUP this year. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Christian Landenberger as teacher at the _Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart_ had a large number of very different students among them Hermann Stenner, artists from the avantgard Üecht group, Gottfried Graf, Albert Mueller or Oskar Schlemmer, and the _Stuttgarter Secession_.

Guten Morgen! Christian Landenberger, * 7.4.1862 in Ebingen; † 13.2.1927 in Stuttgart, war ein impressionistischer Maler und Professor an der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie 🎨 🇩🇪 Ammerseelandschaft mit Segelbooten, 1921 🖼️ #OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #BskyArt #Impressionism

Look at this fabulous concept art (made by Georges Méliès himself!) for the aliens in Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon).

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

Physicist Hedwig Kohn was born #OTD in 1887. Known for her work on flame spectroscopy and black body emissions, she was one of only three women teaching university physics in Germany at the outbreak of WWII. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Brenda Winnewisser / Jewish Women’s Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social

Carl Burckhardt (1878–1923) 'Amazone' ca. 1921 - 1923 This statue was shown at the 1926 Stuttgart Secession exhibition. Heinrich Altherr and C.B. had been friends from student times. The bronze version was cast from models after C.B.'s death. Since 1926, it is placed in Basel at the middle bridge.

#OnThisDay in 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted: the most powerful in human recorded history. As well as killing 71,000, it led to Europe's "Year Without Summer", climate refugees, and the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein... publicdomainreview.org/essay/f... #otd

Otto Luick (1905 - 1984) Self-portrait 1932

Klara Maria Fehrle-Menrad (1885 - 1955) 'Obstbaumpflege' ca. 1925

Alfred Reder (1901 - 1944) Self-portraits etching undated & oil painting, 1926

This wonderful brochure cover for Tagesfachschule für Buchbinder, 1931. From Purvis and de Jong's amazing publication "The Enduring Legacy of Weimar Graphic Design & New Typography 1919-1933.

Curt Querner (1904 - 1976) Self portrait 1930

"Die Welt" by Andreu Alfaro Made from stainless steel, the sculpture at Frankfurt's Platz der Republik unfolds like a fan in space — geometry that guides movement and draws the viewer into the composition.

Fritz Schulze (1903 - 1942) Last known self-portrait, pencil on white paper 1942

CH BEATA I by László Moholy-Nagy, 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137399

Hermann Stenner (1891–1914) 'Bildnis Itten' 1913

Tiergartenufer (1924) by Albert Birkle

The second page of the report features a French cartoon that illustrates the attitudes she was confronting. One man is saying “There’s a woman in the academy!” Another responds with something like "Can’t she wait until the end of the meeting to clean up?" (5/n)

The recommendations in her report were sensible and straightforward ways of addressing an obvious problem. They were not implemented. (6/n)

Ida Kerkovius (1879 - 1970) Self-portrait drawing 1915

Gravitational waves as possible candidates for the origin of dark matter Gravitational waves could be responsible for the production of dark matter during the early phases of our universe’s formation, according to results of a new study by Pro... weiterlesen

This morning, even the pictures look less engaging: no nostalgic twinge, no ironic distance, no inadvertent detail. Where I want vibrancy they are dull; where faded colours might have invoked memory, now they are gaudy.

Then it dawned on me. Card after card, there was nothing. No potential double meanings, no amusingly downbeat updates, no piquant cultural observations, no endearing expressions of direct emotion. Not even a misspelling, a clumsy expression or an unfashionable name. I went through the cards again.