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Sertigweg im Sommer, 1924 / verso: Fehmarnküste mit grünem Himmel 1913

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Thanks to their sheltered lives and the adverse effects of inbreeding, a lot of history’s kings, queens, and other royals became known for their eccentricities. There was Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who delighted in torturing her servants and was even rumored to bathe in the blood of virgins; there was Gian Gastone of Italy, who was so lazy that he spent the latter part of his reign bedridden; and there was Anna of Russia, who so enjoyed humiliating others that she was known to ridicule her…

Can you find Grandfather in the pages of the Madeline book by Ludwig Bemelmans?

This painting reminds me very much of Van Gogh's "My Room in Arles": www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/3278501543/ This isn't surprising when you consider the following biographical information: "During the war Kirchner suffered a serious nervous breakdown, which brought about his discharge from the army. He then moved to Switzerland and in the little village of Davos he found a mountain hut where he spent his first summer. Months later he had to be admitted to a clinic because of another…

“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.” 1913. Street, Berlin In 1911. Kirchner moved to Berlin and st…