Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1877)
"Mother and Children"
Oil on canvas
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Friedrich von Amerling (Austro-Hungarian, 1803–1887) • Portrait of Marie Paterno, née Nemetschke, the fourth and last wife of Amerling • 1881
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Adolf Hitler's time-line
This is Adolf Hitler, The Fuhrer, timeline:
1889: He was born in Vienna.
1892: the family moved to Passau, Germany, where the future dictator acquired his Low-Bavarian accent that would accompany him in the orations of his future political life.
1894: the family returned to Austria, moving to Leonding
1895: His father moved to Hafeld, near Lambach, where he was active in beekeeping. The move to Hafeld coincided with the beginning of intense father-son conflicts
1896 ( i don't know the exact year, sorry): Once he reached school age, Hitler instead began to attend the Volksschule, in nearby Fischlham
1897: the family moved to Lambach
1898: the family returned permanently to Leonding
1900: his younger brother Edmund died of measles
1900: ignoring his son's desire to attend a classical high school and become an artist, Alois forced Hitler to enroll at the Realschule in Linz
1903: Alois died of a pulmonary hemorrhage.
1908: His mother, Klara, dies.
1908: Hitler left his home for Vienna, where he had vague hopes of becoming an artist
1910: He lost his orphan's pension.
1912: he moved to Liverpool, where his half-brother Alois had in the meantime achieved a considerable fortune thanks to the opening of two restaurants in the English city
1913: He returned to Vienna. It was in Vienna that Hitler began to approach anti-Semitism.
1913: Hitler moved to Munich to avoid military service in the Austro-Hungarian army.
1914: Hitler enlisted as a volunteer at the age of 25 in Kaiser Wilhelm II's Bavarian army, being assigned to the 1st Company of the 16th "List" Infantry Regiment, belonging to the 6th Reserve Division. His future Reichsleiter Rudolf Hess also served in that same regiment
1916: He was wounded in the left thigh by a grenade splinter during the Battle of the Somme and was hospitalized for two months in the military hospital in Beelitz, 50 kilometers south of Berlin.
1916: He was decorated with the Iron Cross second class
1917: Five months later, he returned to the battlefield and fought all the bloodiest battles on the Flanders front, including the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele.
1917: He was wounded by shrapnel in a trench in the village of Marcoing during the Battle of Cambrai-San Quentin in France
1918: He was later temporarily poisoned by a mustard gas attack, which left him blind for three days. He was immediately admitted to Pasewalk Military Hospital where, according to some sources, he learned the news of the German defeat on November 9th.
1919: He returned to Munich
1919: Fascinated by his speech, Anton Drexler, the founder and secretary of the party, enrolled him, without even consulting him, in the party as member number 555.
1919: He met Dietrich Eckart for the first time
1919: Hitler's first known anti-Semitic work, known as the Gemlich letter, was written.
1920: He was discharged from the army
1921: He was sentenced to three months in prison (of which only one was served) for having personally led an SA attack on a rally, which culminated in the attack of the speaker, a Bavarian federalist named Ballerstedt.
1923: Hitler and other extremists attempted the failed Munich Putsch.
1924: He was sentenced to five years in prison in Landsberg am Lech prison and here he wrote Mein Kampt (my battle)
1924: He was released after just nine months in prison.
1925: The first part of Mein Kampf was published
1925: Hitler established the SS
1928: The Nazi Party failed miserably in the 1928 elections
1930: Hitler assumed the position of Oberste SA (supreme leader), entrusting the position of military commander (Stabschef) of the SA to Ernst Röhm
1930: the Nazi Party suddenly rose from obscurity and gained over 18% of the vote and 107 seats in the Reichstag, making it the second largest political force in Germany
1931: His niece Geli (they were supposedly having an affair) commits suicide.
1932: the Nazis achieved their best result, winning 230 seats and becoming the party with a relative majority; Thanks to this victory, Hitler also managed to finally obtain German citizenship.
1933: He was appointed Chancellor of Germany
1933: Using the pretext of the Reichstag fire, Hitler issued the "Reichstag fire decree" on 28 February 1933, less than a month after taking office. The decree suppressed most of the civil rights guaranteed by the 1919 constitution of the Weimar Republic in the name of national security.
1933: Dachau concentration camp opens its doors
1934: After Hindernburg's death, Hitler, who was the Chancellor, could not also become President of the Reich (head of State), created a new position for himself, that of Führer, which in practice allowed him to combine the two roles. He was Führer und Reichskanzler (Reich leader and chancellor). From 1934 until his death there was no Reich President in Germany.
1935: The Nuremberg Laws were proclaimed
1935: he had to have a polyp removed from his throat, which led to relapses later
1935: Hitler repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, reintroducing conscription in Germany.
1936: Hitler violated the treaty of Versailles again by occupying the Rhineland demilitarized zone.
1936: when the Spanish civil war broke out, Hitler sent troops to help Francisco Franco's rebels
1936: On Goebbels' idea, Hitler hosted the 11th Olympiad in Berlin
1936: There was the signing of a friendship treaty between the Kingdom of Italy and Germany in Berlin
1937: Hitler held a secret meeting in the Reich Chancellery, in which he declared his plans for the acquisition of "living space" for the German people.
1938: With a plebiscite Austria joined Germany (the so-called Anschluss) and Hitler, who thus laid the foundations of Greater Germany, made a triumphal entry into Vienna
1938: This led to the Munich Agreement of September 1938 in which the United Kingdom and France, with the mediation of Mussolini, weakly gave in to his demands to avoid war, thus "sacrificing" Czechoslovakia, which was occupied.
1939: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is signed.
1939: The Germans enter Prague, occupying Czechoslovakia.
1939: The military alliance with Fascist Italy known as the Pact of Steel takes shape.
1939: The Second World War begins with the Invasion of Poland
1940: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway
1940: The Battle of Britain, the only Nazi failure of that period, ends.
1940: In May, a flash offensive began that quickly swept through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.
1940: The Auschwitz concentration camp opens its doors.
1941: Yugoslavia and Greece are invaded.
1941: Martin Bormann gives him Blondi.
1941: Operation Barbarossa began.
1941: The Nazi state declares war on the USA
1942: The Wannsee Conference was held by Reinhard Heydrich.
1943: The Battle of Stalingrad, considered by many historians as a turning point in ww2, ends.
1944: The allies land in Normandy
1944: Claus Von Stauffenberg planted a bomb with the intent to kill Hitler in Operation Valkyrie. The operation failed.
1945: He married Eva Braun.
1945: He killed himself.
Sources:
Wikipedia: Adolf Hitler
Military Wiki: Adolf Hitler
Hitler and his loyalists by Paul Roland
I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM,FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATIONAL POST
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"Meine Süsse, weine nicht."
"In the middle of The Great War, Major Gilbert Beilschmidt fell in love with Annaliese Von Edelstein- an Austro-Hungarian Red Cross nurse who took care of him during his convalescence. A woman whose soft, beautiful lilac eyes were easily showing sympathy to the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield.
...And that was how their doomed fate started. For her, to be kind in the wrong time. For Major Beilschmidt, to let his emotions beaten his reason. But never shall the Major regret his fatal decision when he protected Miss Edelstein, because to still maintain humanity, love and be loved in the most horrid time would be and always a blessing."
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Commission for one of my OTP made by Denos, a truly lovely person. (because OP cannot freaking draw even in stick figure)
You can check Artist's other works via:
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Meine Süsse, weine nicht: My sweet, don't cry.
I truly like the name Annaliese for FemAustria (NyoAustria). But I think I will call her Anna for short if I post about her again.
Feel kinda bad when I have to bully Fem Austria in my story because she is my muse (such a beauty, especially when she cries. Maybe that's why I love being mean to her. I'm sorry my princess!).
For me, Prussia x Fem Austria always have an element of poetic tragedy which I craved for. So in my universe, they only got their happiness in modern setting where they don't have to worry about complicated politics and wars (this apply for both nation ver or human au).
But Gilbert deserves all my meanness and I'm not feel remorse a bit. LoL.
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Every time I read about Czech artist Anna Zemankova (1908-1986), I select a few pictures to post.
"I grow flower which grow nowhere else," used to say Anna Zemankova. Under the Cold War in Prague, housewife Anna Zemankova started drawing from over the age of fifty. It was her son, a sculptor, who suggested his mother suffering from melancholia to take up drawing.
Every morning from 4am to 7am - while the rest of the family was still fast asleep - she drew guided by her favorite classical music. Her botanical drawings drawn in pastel are adorned with handicraft-like decoration such as metal fragments producing a bumpy effect, glued fabric and embroidery.Anna Zemánková was born in Olomouc, Moravia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. While still a child she showed a great fondness for drawing; her father, however, had no sympathy for her predisposition and she became a dental technician.
In 1933, she married an army officer and stopped working to devote herself to her family. The couple had three sons, the older of whom died at the age of four, and later, a daughter. A loving mother, she spent all her time taking care of her family. After World War Two, the family moved to Prague.
In 1950 she began to suffer from depression, and because of diabetes, had to have both legs amputated.She was over 50 when – perhaps in a return to her childhood dreams – she began painting daily, working every day from four to seven in the morning to sketch spontaneous drawings inspired by plants. It was in these early hours that she felt she could capture magnetic forces. When she set about drawing, she had no idea of the final shape the work would take, saying, “It all works by itself … there is no need to think.
”Her strikingly detailed works with a compelling rhythm of spirals, arabesques and geometric shapes make Zemánková a major figure in art brut. They are to be found in the most prestigious art brut collections and Zemánková is to be duly honoured at the international pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2013.
https://christianberst.com/en/artists/anna-zemankova
https://www.frieze.com/.../incandescent-botany-overlooked...
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Bella Paalen as Fricka; Vienna, 1919
Bella Paalen was born as Isabella (Izabella) Pollak in Pásztó, Komitat Nógrád, in Austro-Hungarian Hungary on December 9, 1881. She was the oldest of the three children of a Jewish couple – Laura Pollak neé Jamnitz, and Ernst Pollak.
Ernst was initially a factory director, and later a representative for commercial trade agencies. The Pollaks lived in the Austro-Hungarian capital and Imperial Residence city of Vienna.
Isabella Pollak studied voice at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music. Her voice teacher was a prominent interpreter of Richard Wagner’s operas: Rosa Papier. Her son Bernhard Paumgartner became head of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In the autumn of 1905, Isabella Pollak, whose stage name was Bella Paalen, was employed as an alto (alto voice) in Graz. In its 1905/06 season the Graz Opera House was able to achieve brilliant successes under its artistic director Alfred Cavarn.
A sensational highlight was the Austrian premiere of the opera Salome by Richard Strauss in the presence of the director of the Vienna Court Opera Gustav Mahler. Mahler had been unable to produce it himself because of censorship by the Viennese court.
In Graz, the Vienna Court Opera singer Jenny Korb, a soprano, sang the title role of »Salome«. Bella PAALEN was heard in the small alto part of »The Page of Herodias«.
On December 3, 1906, Bella Paalen sang the alto solo in Gustav Mahler’s 3rd Symphony for the first time in the Graz Opera House: an orchestral concert conducted by the composer himself. Gustav Mahler was so impressed by Bella PAALEN that he engaged the 25-year-old contralto at the Vienna Court Opera on September 1, 1907.
Bella Paalen was part of the ensemble of the Vienna Court (and later Vienna State) Opera for three decades. She sang the alto parts »Fricka«, »Erda«, »Grimgerde« and »Norn« in The Ring of the Nibelung opera cycle, »Magdalena« in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, »Brangäne« in Tristan and Isolde and »Ortrud« in Lohengrin – all by Richard Wagner, as well as »Klytämnestra« in Elektra and »Annina« in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss along with other roles, mostly small alto parts.
»Annina« was Bella Paalen’s star role at the Court/State Opera: 173 performances between 1911 and 1937. The famous bass singer Richard Mayr also shone in Der Rosenkavalier as »Ochs von Lerchenau«.
Mayr’s birthplace, Salzburg, has a memorial for this. What has been forgotten, however, is that Bella PAALEN was part of the Mayr family’s circle of friends.
After the end of WWI, in 1919, Bella Paalen made her first summer vacation in the Salzburg spa Hofgastein. She was one of the prominent spa guests who participated in charity events and gave recitals every now and then.
Bernhard Paumgartner, the son of her singing teacher Rosa Papier, had been director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 1917 and he acted as her piano accompanist on one occasion.
In 1920 Bella Paalen’s parents, Ernst and Laura Pollak bought house no. 34 in Hofgastein, called the »Haidenhäusl«. Her parents both died in 1935. Her father first, then soon afterwards her mother during a performance of the opera Lohengrin at the Vienna State Opera, which caused a sensation because Bella PAALEN broke off her performance as »Ortrud« when she learned about her death:… Miss Bella Paalen’s mother, who was well into her seventies, has always been the most attentive fan of her daughter, who is not only one of the most popular members of the [opera company], but also the one who has been here for the longest, namely since 1907. The elderly Frau Paalen wasn’t only nervous, she suffered from a serious heart condition that had made her daughter very anxious when the old lady attended the opera … Kleine Volks-Zeitung, May 19, 1935
Bella Paalen inherited her parents’ house in Hofgastein. Her younger brother, the artist Benedict Fred Dolbin, emigrated to the USA in October 1935. Her youngest brother Otto Friedrich Pollak had died in the First World War as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army.
It has been said that Bella Paalen was honored with the title »Austrian Chamber Singer« in 1933, but that isn’t correct. In fact she only received the title in September 1937 when she was 56 years old and already »retired«.
Bella Paalen was 52 years old when she first appeared in a small alto role at the Salzburg Festival in 1934: as »First Maid« in the opera Elektra. In the 1936 summer festival she had the small role as »Manuela« (the maid of Juan Lopez) in the Hugo Wolf opera Der Corregidor.
The festival audience was able to see and hear Bella Paalen again in the summer of 1937, lastly on August 22nd, as »First Maid« in the opera Elektra – with only a few appearances that hardly received any attention in the reviews.
Bella Paalen made her last glamorous appearance at the Vienna State Opera as »Marthe« in Charles Gounod’s opera Margarethe on July 6, 1937. Irene Harand’s philosemitic magazine Gerechtigkeit [Justice] reported:… The last two performances of the current opera year took place in front of a sold out house; this extraordinary public interest was not only aroused by the guest performances of Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza, but also in the farewell to an artist whose whole life and all her strength were dedicated to our company for thirty years … The drastic Marthe was Bella Paalen, to whom the audience gave a roaring farewell with frenetic applause; and when she bowed for the last time, it was certainly not only she who had tears in her eye. Ks. Gerechtigkeit, July 15, 1937
What went unmentioned, however, was that Bella PAALEN, who had retired, was Jewish and had not converted to Christianity to further her career. Not coincidentally the reasons why she had been honored only so late in her career remained obscure:Bella Paalen, who retired at the end of the previous season, was awarded the title of Austrian Chamber Singer. Even if this honor came a little late, it will please everyone who is indebted to the artist for great experiences over countless years. Ks. Gerechtigkeit, September 16, 1937
Despite her retirement, the artist was unable to quit her thirty year career so quickly. In the annals of the Vienna State Opera it is recorded that Bella Paalen had two more appearances: as »Palmatica, Countess Nowalska« in Millöcker’s Bettelstudent on October 11, 1937 and as »Filipjewna« in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on March 11, 1938.
Bella Paalen, who lived in the 1st district, probably left National Socialist Vienna only after the »Reichskristallnacht« pogroms of November 1938. At least it is on record that the 57 year old singer arrived in New York as a »Hebrew« on the transatlantic liner Hansa on January 13, 1939.
Bella Paalen didn’t have any engagements as a singer after her arrival in New York. She was however very successful as a voice teacher. In the 1950s she sold her house in Hofgastein and lived temporarily in Vienna. Her last address was in New York City – on 85th St. in Jackson Heights Queens.
Bella Paalen died at age 83 in the Elmhurst Hospital, Queens New York, on July 28, 1964. Her urn was placed in the Vienna Central Cemetery grave of her parents on December 3, 1964.
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(CNN) — A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century is expected to fetch millions when it goes up for auction this spring.
The “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” thought to be one of the Austrian painter’s final works, is expected to fetch up to $54 million at a sale that has created huge excitement in the art world.
The painting had long been considered lost, according to Vienna auction house im Kinsky.
However, it has now emerged that it had been privately owned by an Austrian citizen.
“The rediscovery of this portrait, one of the most beautiful of Klimt’s last creative period, is a sensation,” the auction house said in a press statement on its website.
The intensely vivid and colorful piece had been documented in catalogues of the artist’s work, but experts had only seen it in a black and white photo.
The sitter is known to have been a member of a wealthy Austrian Jewish family who were then part of the upper class of Viennese society, where Klimt found his patrons and clients.
Nevertheless, her identity is not completely certain.
Brothers Adolf and Justus Lieser were leading industrialists in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Catalogues of Klimt’s work state that Adolf commissioned the artist to paint his teenage daughter Margarethe Constance.
However, new research by the auction house suggests Justus’ wife, Lilly, hired him to paint one of their two daughters.
The statement on the auctioneer’s website reveals that the sitter — whoever she was — visited Klimt’s studio nine times in April and May 1917.
He made at least 25 preliminary studies and most likely began the painting in the May of that year.
“The painter chose a three-quarter portrait for his depiction and shows the young woman in a strictly frontal pose, close to the foreground, against a red, undefined background. A cape richly decorated with flowers is draped around her shoulders,” the auction house said.
It added:
“The intense colors of the painting and the shift towards loose, open brushstrokes show Klimt at the height of his late period.”
When the artist died of a stroke the following February, the painting was still in his studio - with some small parts not quite finished. It was then given to the Lieser family.
Its exact fate after 1925 is “unclear,” according to the auction house.
“What is known is that it was acquired by a legal predecessor of the consignor in the 1960s and went to the current owner through three successive inheritances,” the statement said.
"The painting is to be sold on behalf of its Austrian owners, who have not been named, along with the legal successors of 'Adolf and Henriette Lieser based on an agreement in accordance with the Washington Principles of 1998,'” the auction house said.
Established in 1998, the Washington Principles charged participating nations with returning Nazi-confiscated art to their rightful owners.
Claudia Mörth-Gasser, specialist in modern art at im Kinsky, explained the situation in an email to CNN.
She said the auctioneer checked the painting’s history and provenance “in all possible ways in Austria,” adding:
“We have checked all archives and have found no evidence that the painting has ever been exported out of Austria, confiscated or looted.
But by the same token, she added:
“We have no proof that the painting has not ever been looted in the time gap between 1938 and 1945.”
"And this is the reason why we arranged an agreement between the present owner and all descendants of the Lieser family in accordance to the ‘Washington Principles,’” she said.
Klimt’s portraits of women “are seldom offered at auctions,” the press release states.
It continues:
“A painting of such rarity, artistic significance, and value has not been available on the art market in Central Europe for decades.
The painting will tour internationally ahead of the sale on April 24, stopping in Switzerland, Germany, Britain and Hong Kong."
The last portrait completed by Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction, when it fetched a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London last year.
Depicting an unidentified female subject, “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) also established a new record for Klimt, outselling “Birch Forest,” which went for $104.6 million in a sale from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen in 2022.
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
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The Breakers Music Room —
The MUSIC ROOM, designed by Richard van der Boyen and Allard et Fil, reflects the French Baroque interior the Vanderbilts would have seen in places like the Paris Opera House, and was the setting for family weddings and debutante parties. Gold and silver leaf, blue-grey Campan marble from France, mirrors, and crystal light fixtures combine to make a glittering effect for evening concerts and receptions. The spirit of music and numerous great composers are celebrated in the ceiling painting. This room and furnishings, in addition to those in the Morning Room, were designed and constructed in France then shipped to this location for installation.
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The Breakers Morning Room —
The wall paneling in the MORNING ROOM was designed by Richard van der Boyen, who carved elaborate garlands and figures in the late Renaissance style. Classical mythology and allegories decorate this room, from the painted allegory of the four seasons on the ceiling, to the Muses who appear in the corners of the room, painted on platinum leaf panels.
The room also displays portraits of Cornelius Vanderbilt II by the preeminent American portrait painter, John Singer Sargent, and the Count Laszlo Széchényi and Countess Gladys Széchényi, by the Hungarian artist Philip Alexius De László. Countess Széchényi was born Gladys Vanderbilt, the youngest of Cornelius and Alice's children. In 1908, Gladys married Count Laszlo Széchényi, a member of Hungary's premier aristocratic family and a minister to the Court of St. James in London and, later, to the United States.
When her mother Alice passed away in 1934, Countess Széchényi inherited The Breakers. In 1948, to raise funds for the Preservation Society's restoration of Hunter House, Countess Széchényi opened The Breakers to the public for tours. That same year, she leased The Breakers to the Preservation Society for $1.00 a year and continued to fund the maintenance of the house. The Preservation Society purchased The Breakers in 1972 for approximately $400,000. As an early member and supporter of the Preservation Society, Countess Széchényi made a major contribution to the preservation of Newport's architectural heritage.
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The Breakers Breakfast / Dining Room —
The BREAKFAST ROOM served as both breakfast room and informal family dining room. The table, which may be extended to seat 16 would have seated the entire family or served as seating for a small, informal dinner or luncheon. One of the premier decorators for America's elite families, Jules Allard et Fils Cules Allard & Sons) of Paris, supplied the Louis XV style furniture for the room and decided on the room's color scheme. The Vanderbilts were surrounded by imagery of the harvest.
Look around to see fruits and vegetables plentifully adorning the walls. The 12 rose-colored stone columns are solid alabaster and draw your eyes upward to the ceiling painting of the goddess Aurora heralding the dawn. The massive chandeliers and wall sconces in the Imperial design are made of French Baccarat crystal, and were piped for gas and wired for electricity at the time the house was built. The crown shaped tops indicate the style, while the rings on the chains were used to adjust the flow of gas.
Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters. The mansion covers nearly an acre of the 13-acre property and has 70 rooms including 48 bedrooms for family and staff. There are 27 fireplaces. It was equipped with electricity – still a novelty in houses during the Gilded Age – as well as gas for lighting.
The Breakers has entertained presidents, royalty and guests from across the world for more than 125 years and today is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year. It is the flagship of the Newport Mansions and a world-famous iconic image of the City-by-the-Sea. The Breakers was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
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are there any other historical figures you like I'm intrigued 👀
Okay buckle in, somehow this post will be weirder than any of my f1 stuff bcs for some reason I'm very intense about historical figures, I think I just have a tendency to treat them like blorbos
Mostly I'm endeared to powerful figures, idk why, it's the way it is. Okay so obviously you already know I like Napoleon(and Wellington to an extent), that really doesn't need to be emphasized anymore
Since being in Austria, I feel super endeared to Maria Theresa. She just seemed like such a boss! I think she's just really cool. Her father changed the plan of succession so she'd become Empress(rather than her cousins), but immediately upon taking power, she was immediately embroiled in war over her being the new ruler(everyone who had signed the treaty of succession suddeny reversed) But she defended her rule of the Habsburg monarchy! I think the coolest part about her is that her husband, who married into the Habsburgs, was supposed to be in charge, but she wouldn't let him be involved at all practically and was the de facto ruler of the Holy Roman Empire for like 20 years. She had 16 children and was basically constantly pregnant and having kids while involved in war, yet still held power and guided Austro-Hungary through it all 🥹 I think it's very funny also that she was laying out so many reforms, guiding the country basically just herself, and still found time to write letters to all their kids and be an overbearing mother. Also she was Marie Antoinette's mother?? I'm still shocked by how many important kids she had. If you've been to any part of the former Austro-Hungarian(+ Bohemian) Empire, she really left her mark, there's soooo much stuff named after her. The statue of her in between the Kunsthistorisches and the Natural History Museum in Vienna is really cool, and that she has a whole Platz named after her with her giant statue!!! I think it's just really admirable that a woman at that period of time had so much power and ruled so efficiently. (MY god sorry I wrote so much)
Okay now I'll try to refrain from the historical rambles, I also like: Julius Caeser(cliche sorry I know), Dmitri Shostakovich(my favorite composer ever), Pyotr Tchaikovsky(pls read about his sugar mommy patron), Erwin Rommel(I like his nickname: The Desert Fox), J.C. Leyendecker(favorite artist, I am obsessed with his work), Alphonse Mucha, Calvin Coolidge(not the best president by far but the anecdotes about his social awkwardness and quietness are hilarious to me), Ernst Gideon von Laudon(not completely insane about him, but it's like with the Napoleon Crossing the Alps painting, I saw a painting and bust of him and now feel weirdly endeared.) And then there's probably some others I can't recall atm because it's 3 am
I think my top three though are Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Maria Theresa. They're all just very: "Catie saw a painting/statue and is now very weird about it." And then being in the vicinity of so much history made it 1000x worse. Things I saw in Vienna that made me go "oh my god it's blorbo from my history book": Napoleon Crossing The Alps painting(I seriously sat in that room for probably 20 mins just staring at it, I didn't want to leave) + some other various Napoleon artifacts in the Heeresgesichtliche, a very nice bust of Julius Caesar, and literally the entirety of Vienna had Maria Theresa everywhere
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Yet another female artist let down by society... left for certain death... :(
Otti Berger (4 October 1898 - 1944/45) was a textile artist and weaver. She was a student and later teacher at the #Bauhaus.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
Berger was born in Zmajevac in Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Croatia). She completed education at the Collegiate School for Girls in Vienna before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, now the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
She continued her studies in Zagreb until 1926 before attending Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. There, Berger studied under László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky, among others. Berger has been described as "one of the most talented students at the weaving workshop in Dessau."
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Not allowed to work in Germany under Nazi rule because of her Jewish roots, Berger closed her company down in 1936. Berger fled to London, where attempts to emigrate to United States to work with her fiancee Ludwig Hilberseimer and other Bauhaus professors failed. She wrote to László Moholy-Nagy, Naum Gabo, Walter Gropius, and other friends trying to gain a teaching visa in 1937 but never acquired one.
Berger was unable to find steady work in London, in part because she did not speak the language, but also because she had impaired hearing, and no social circle.
Berger returned to Zmajevac in 1938 to help her family with her mother's poor health. From there, she was deported with her family to the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1944, where she was murdered. Via Wikipedia
see also: Bauhaus 100: Otti Berger, Lost Woman of the Bauhaus (2019)
https://rachelwithane.com/womens-history/bauhaus-100-otti-berger-lost-woman-of-the-bauhaus
#womenofbauhaus #OttiBerger
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KAUFMANN, ISIDOR
(1853-1921) Portrait of a Young Hasid (Wearing Shtreimel).
Oil on wood panel. Vertically signed by the artist lower right. Lavish gilt frame.
(Austro-Hungarian, 1853-1921):
The most outstanding of all Jewish portrait artists. It is well documented that Kaufmann was fond of regularly utilizing particular models in his dramatic portraits set within the traditional world of Eastern Europe. Similarly, Kaufmann reused background props such as the Torah-Ark Curtain seen in the present painting.
Kestenbaum and Company
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Friedrich von Amerling (Austro-Hungarian, 1803–1887) • The Young Eastern Woman • 1838 • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Although the artist provocatively titled this painting Young Eastern Woman, it is obvious that the model is not Asian, but merely wears a Turkish costume. The rich fabrics and glowing light create an exotic atmosphere, revealing a Western fascination with "Oriental" images and themes.
– Cleveland Museum of Art
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Birthdays 7.20
Beer Birthdays
Louis Hudepohl (1842)
Peter Adolph Schemm (1852)
George Reisch (1957)
Arne Johnson (1965)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Thomas Berger; writer (1924)
Stone Gossard; rock musician (1966)
Edmund Hillary; New Zealand mountaineer, explorer (1919)
Max Liebermann; German artist (1847)
Diana Rigg; actress (1938)
Famous Birthdays
Lola Albright; actor (1926)
Alexander the Great; Macedonian king (356 B.C.E.)
Giselle Bundchen; Brazilian model (1980)
Kim Carnes; singer (1945)
Chris Cornell; rock singer (1964)
Donna Dixon; actor (1957)
Desmond Douglas, Jamaican-English table tennis player (1955)
Omar Epps; actor (1973)
Judy Greer; actress (1975)
Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder; Dutch poet (1620)
Sally Ann Howes; actor (1930)
Erik Axel Karlfeld; Swedish poet (1864)
Periklis Korovesis; Greek author (1941)
Cormac McCarthy; writer (1933)
Alistair MacLeo;, Canadian novelist (1936)
Clements Markham; English explorer (1830)
Gregor Mendel; Austro-German scientist (1822)
László Moholy-Nagy; Hungarian artist (1895)
Giorgio Morandi; Italian painter (1890)
Sandra Oh; actress (1971)
Petrarch; Italian poet (1304)
Richard Owen; English zoologist (1804)
Nam June Paik; artist (1932)
Francesco Petrach; Italian scholar (1304)
Tadeusz Reichstein; Polish-Swiss chemist *1897)
Wendy Richard; English actor (1943)
Carlos Santana; rock guitarist (1947)
T. G. Sheppard; country music singer-songwriter (1944)
Taichō; Japanese monk (682)
Frank Whaley; actor (1963)
Dean Winters; actor (1964)
Natalie Wood; actress (1938)
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❤️ 🕶 💥 for the writer ask meme :)
Yay, thank you!
❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?
Answered that already here!
👓 What helps you focus when you write?
I require complete fucking silence, like any pretentious true artist. Poor Josh, who has his desk right next to mine. He's been snapped at quite a bit. Sometimes, I'll put on a gentle playlist or album (Daughter is great). Recently, I've been lighting a candle in my room because my soul needs everything to be extra special
💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?
Man, my writings have a tenuous connection to canon at best. Most of the things that are different are things I didn't like (such as Roderich's terminal lack of a spine and the Austro-Hungarian relationship being too fucking cute and sweet. Hima, lemme see your sources on this shit). Of the one thing I kept for angst but, if I could travel back in time to 2006 and make Hetalia before he did, Gil would just be Lutz's father. It makes the most sense to me. Then I'd probably also make Arthur Alfred's pops cause....mm there's some parallels there. AND canonize HRE's body being Lutz's, but done to show Gil's own depravity, growing lust for power, becoming the monster, etc etc
It's probably good for the majority of the fandom that I have no control of canon. Things become...very bleak now that I self-reflect
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Persenbeug.
Luigi Kasimir, (Austro-Hungarian-born, etcher, painter, printmaker and landscape artist 1881 - 1960 born in the now Slovenian town of Pettau)
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Jewish singers of Western classical music
Compiling this list — the last in this series for the foreseeable future, although I’m well aware that there are others that I could do — has been a frustrating experience.
What I’m looking for, ultimately, is self-identification, which isn’t always forthcoming. And you can’t always trust Encyclopedia Judaica, which follows Israeli policy in determining Jewish status, i.e., one Jewish grandparent makes you Jewish, no matter what. (This is settled law in Israel, and it’s caused no end of trouble.)
Also, I’m not willing to knowingly include here the likes of Alma Gluck, who was a practicing Christian Scientist for most of her adult life, nor Richard Tauber, a life-long, if largely nominal, Roman Catholic who was bewildered to learn, in 1933, that he did in fact have a Jewish grand-parent. Since I’ve tended to err on the side of caution, there may be artists who should be on this list but aren’t.
You also won’t find here a number of artists whom my instincts tell me must be Jewish, but who are being, or were in their time, insufferably coy about it. (Jake Arditti, Beniamino Gigli, Jonas Kaufman, Selma Kurtz, Margarete Matzenauer, Jakub Józef Orliński, Annie Rosen, Regina Sarfaty: I’m looking at all of you.)
I’ve had to be vague about birthplaces in some cases, because some of these singers were born in jurisdictions that either no longer exist or whose names have changed. (Poland didn’t exist as a nation when Rosa Raisa was born there, and I don’t know what part of Poland — Austrian, German, or Russian — she came from.)
What applies to the earlier lists also applies here: I’ve included many of the younger ones solely on the basis of reputation, without having heard them. Not all are or were A-listers, but they are all people who sing or sang Western classical music for a living, or taught others to do so, or a combination of the two.
And finally, I should point out that while stage names are now a rare phenomenon in classical music, they were fairly common in the past — especially for singers! (Richard Tucker was born Reuben Ticker, for example.)
Mario Ancona (1860-1931), baritone, Italy
Rafael Arie (1922-1988), bass, Bulgaria
Sharon Azrieli, soprano, Canada
Richard Bernstein, bass, USA
Rachel Blaustein, soprano, USA
John Braham (ca. 1775-1856), tenor, UK
Lucienne Bréval (1869-1935), soprano, Switzerland
Katharine Carlisle (Kitty Carlisle Hart; 1910-2007), soprano, USA
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, counter-tenor, USA
Netanya Davrath (1931-1987), soprano, USSR
Shannon Delijani, mezzo-soprano, USA
Jeanne Diamond, soprano, USA
Pauline Donalda (1882-1970), soprano, Canada
Edis de Philippe (1918-1978), soprano, USA
Daryl Freedman, mezzo-soprano, USA
Rachel Frenkel, mezzo-soprano, Israel
Blake Friedman, tenor, USA
Allan Glassman, tenor, USA
Hannah Goodman, soprano, USA
Oren Gradus, bass, USA
Sheri Greenawald, soprano, USA
Hermann Jadlowker (1878–1953), tenor, Latvia
Cheri Rose Katz, mezzo-soprano, USA
Solomon Khromchenko (1907-2002), tenor, Russia
Alexander Kipnis (1891–1978), bass-baritone, Russia
Nina Koshetz (1894–1965), soprano, Russia
Isa Kremer (1887-1956), soprano, Russia
Maya Lahyani, mezzo-soprano, Israel
Evelyn Lear (1926-2012), soprano, USA
Adèle Leigh (1928-2004), soprano, UK
Samuel Levine, tenor, USA
Brenda Lewis (1921-2017), soprano, USA
Assaf Levitin, baritone, Israel
Estelle Liebling (1880-1970), soprano, USA
Emanuel List (1888-1967), bass, Austria
George London (1920-1985), bass, Canada
Channa Malkin, soprano, Netherlands
Jeffrey Mandelbaum, counter-tenor, USA
Mikhail Medvedev (1852-1925), tenor, Russia
Robert Merrill (1917-2004), baritone, USA
Ottilie Metzger (1878-1943), contralto, Germany
Rinnat Moriah, soprano, Israel
Andrew Morstein, tenor, USA
Rosa Pauly (1894–1975), soprano, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jan Peerce (1904-1984), tenor, USA
Roberta Peters (1930-2017), soprano, USA
Ian Pomerantz, bass-baritone, USA
Rosa Raisa (1893–1963), soprano, Poland
Miriam Rap-Janowska (also known as Miriam Janowsky; 1891-1992), soprano, Latvia
Judith Raskin (1928-1984), soprano, USA
Spencer Reichman, baritone, USA
Chen Reiss, soprano, Israel
Regina Resnik (1923-2013), mezzo-soprano, USA
Neil Rosenshine, tenor, USA
Aaron Marko Rothmuller (1908-1993), baritone, Yugoslavia
Charlotte de Rothschild, soprano, UK
Arieh Sacke, tenor, Canada
Gidon Saks, bass-baritone, Israel
Dalia Schaechter, mezzo-soprano, Israel
Doron Schleifer, counter-tenor, Israel
Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942), tenor, Romania
Friedrich Schorr (1888–1953), bass-baritone, Austro-Hungary
Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano, Israel
Neil Shicoff, tenor, USA
Beverly Sills (1929-2007), soprano, USA
Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano, UK
Wiliam Socolof, bass-baritone, USA
Daniel Sutin, baritone, USA
Jennie Tourel (1910-1973), mezzo-soprano, Canada
Richard Tucker (1913-1975), tenor, USA
Sandra Warfield (1921-2009), mezzo-soprano, USA
Nofar Yacobi, soprano, Israel
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano, USA
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