Susanne Ramharter
Treading Lightly
Occupation: Treading Lightly through Life, Art, Organisations, and Leadership
Location: Wien
Birthday: 02/13
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2013-06-19 06:30:54 (29 comments, 10 reshares, 78 +1s)
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Today we celebrate the birthday of an artist from #canada , Cornelius David Krieghoff, who was born on June 19th in 1815. Though Dutch by birth, Krieghoff, who was widely traveled, made his home in Canada (Montreal and Quebec). He is best known for his paintings of Canadian landscapes, many with indigenous people, and his winter scenes.
This painting from 1859 is one of a number of paintings on the theme of the Toll Gate controversies at the time. The (English ) colonial government had instituted a number of Toll Gates, to raise money for the maintenance of roadways, mainly those leading to/from the major cities of Quebec and Montreal. However, those most affected were the local French population, who saw the Toll Gates not only in terms of the money they cost, but also as a (further) sign of English dominance.
Running through Toll... more »
2013-06-18 08:39:50 (13 comments, 15 reshares, 84 +1s)
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One of the premier artists of Netherlandish (and yes, that is a word in the context of art history) painting, Rogier Van Der Weyden, died on June 18th in 1465. Though he was known and respected throughout Europe in his time, he never signed his works and there is almost no (primary source) documentation linking works to contracts, etc. Still, most art historians agree that this, The Descent From The Cross, or The Deposition is Van Der Weydens greatest work.
At 2.6 meters long by 2.2 meters high, the painting is huge, and yet, because he somehow managed to get 10 separate figures into this space, it seems to be a very intimate scene. This painting could be, and is, described in many, many words. I won't attempt that here, but will call your attention to a few aspects:
- the individual expressions of grief on the various figures
- the le... more »
2013-06-17 08:25:44 (22 comments, 16 reshares, 123 +1s)
Good Morning Google+
Today we celebrate the birthday of M.C. Escher, the Dutch graphic artist, book illustrator, designer, and printmaker born on June 17th, 1898.
There are probably not many who haven't seen at least some works by Escher, whether it be his lithographs or woodcuts of impossible realities, his landscapes, or his works belonging to his Division of Planes series, so full of ingenuity and playfulness, such as this, his _Circle Limit with Butterflies._
Therefore, I am dispensing with further comments about Escher and would like to dedicate this post to the memory of +J.C. Kendall , a wonderful man and great spirit, who passed away unexpectedly and much too soon two days ago.
I believe this quote captures the zest for life and love passion that J.C. shared with us here:
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three s... more »
2013-06-16 21:16:47 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 46 +1s)
J.C. Kendall, as I will always remember him
Two weeks ago, I had the great luck to be on an HOA together with +J.C. Kendall , +Jim Ault, +R. Harlan Smith and our host +John Rakestraw on the subject of Killer Content. As always, J.C. gave us not only his intelligence and knowledge, but himself. He shared his wit, humor, passion and some frustrations, in other words, himself.
He was a good friend and I am ever so sorry to have lost him way too soon. He leaves a big hole in my Google+ world.
I truly mean it when I say: Rest In Peace J.C.!
2013-06-16 20:09:08 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)
JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KENDALL (1962-2013)
With the greatest of sorrow I, +su ann lim , have to inform you that Jonathan Christopher Kendall, my fiancé and love of my life, died suddenly last night on 15 June 2013. Despite the incredible efforts of our friends +Suzanne Jacob +Gaynal Brierley , paramedics and ambulance personnel he could not be revived.
Jonathan lived as he believed, telling it like it is, with wit and humour, enjoying life to the hilt, with honour, directness and compassion. I was incredibly blessed to be the recipient of his immense love, and as each other's beloved, to share unbelievable happiness for too short a time. Jonathan, I LOVE YOU with all my heart and miss you desperately.
One of the favourite activities in his life was to engage with all you here on Google Plus. He thrived on the intellectual challenges, soaked up a vast amou... more »
2013-06-16 13:43:34 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 113 +1s)
There's something about a Cathedral...
no matter how many tourists you have swarming around on the floor, looking up inspires awe every time.
For #SacredSunday +SacredSunday™ , +Manfred Berndtgen , +Robyn Morrison , +Chatchai Rombix , +Justin Hill , +Steve Barge , +Carolyn St.Charles , +***
#treadlightly
2013-06-16 08:41:41 (29 comments, 24 reshares, 128 +1s)
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In keeping with yesterday's painting, here are more drunk babies Putti! This time in the painting Venus and Mars, by Carlo Saraceni, an Italian painter who died of Typhus on June 16th in 1620. This painting is an earlier work of Saraceni's, one of six small panels (no more than 18x22 inches) which are thought to have been commissioned for the Farnese Palace and are based in part on stories from the Metamorphoses by Ovid (43 BC - 17/18 AD).
The Metamorphoses is a gigantic epic poem, containing about 250 myths, beginning at the "dawn of time" and going up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Among its many myths is the story of Mars and Venus (also called Cytherea), who committed adultery, Venus being married to the lame God Vulcan, who was the blacksmith of the gods. Vulcan was alerted to their trysts and crafted a superfine net, w... more »
2013-06-15 08:35:35 (21 comments, 13 reshares, 90 +1s)
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Saturdays are for relaxing and having some fun. In this spirit, let's celebrate the birthday of Nicolas Poussin, the great French painter of the Baroque, who was born on June 15th in 1594. Though French, Poussin spent most of his working life in Rome, where he was greatly influenced by classical art, culture and philosophy. He became a Stoic, following the philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, believing that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment.
He came to be known as the "philosophic artist" and, because his work lacked the drama of much of Baroque art, he was often viewed negatively, as lacking in emotion and expression. At the same time, he is regarded to be one of the most important forerunners of classicism. So I was all set to present his Arcadian Shepherds, a painting that falls squarely into this c... more »
2013-06-14 19:22:32 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
Social Media Tips for Authors by +Guy Kawasaki
Guy has some great tips for using social media that apply not only to authors, but to anyone trying to establish connections and a presence on social media. These tips, while not earth-shaking new, bear repeating again and again, and he does so in his wonderful, inimitable style.
Take it from him, he is a master at it ;-)
#socialmedia #socialmediamarketing #treadlightly
2013-06-14 09:13:17 (15 comments, 5 reshares, 79 +1s)
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Guiseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, an Italian artist, died on June 14th in 1907. Like many artists, he was a very intense and focused person, quite convinced that his point of view was the (only) correct one. He was born into a family of small farmers in Volpedo, a small town in the Piedmont region of Italy. Dissatisfaction with his various art teachers led to studies of art in Rome, Florence and Bergamo, but Pellizza kept returning to Volpedo.
Through his studies and contacts with other artists he became interested in the effects of both light and composition, at which he came to excel. He used divisionism, a method also called pointilism, in which paint was not applied in strokes of the brush, but in dabbing dots of color next to each other. He applied this method very subtly, only close inspection of his paintings shows the individual dabs.
P... more »
2013-06-13 07:55:35 (15 comments, 6 reshares, 84 +1s)
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So many artists, so many choices.... but today I want to introduce you to Joseph Stella, an Italian American artist born on June 13th in 1877. Stella was born as Giuseppe Michele Stella in a small town near Naples, Italy. He emigrated to the US in 1895 and, after vain attempts to study medicine discovered his passion for art. Though he received recognition as an illustrator and artist,working in a realist tradition, he was homesick for Europe and returned for an extended stay between 1909 and 1912.
He traveled throughout Italy and spent some time in Paris, where he was a member of Gertrude Salon for a time. It was during this time that he became familiar and impressed with the new developments in art, mainly with Cubism, Fauvism, and Futurism. On his return to New York City, he incorporated some of these elements into his work, particularly fut... more »
2013-06-12 12:51:38 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)
Gideon Rosenblatt's Top 100
These are the folks Google tells me are my most relevant people (slightly modified to remove people who are relevant, but not active here on Google+).
Looking through this list, I can tell you that these are great people full of interesting ideas and engagement.
I'm not in the circle here, so I can objectively say that this group is a worthy addition to your circles.
Enjoy this group of people - I know I do. They enrich my experience here. Without them, I probably wouldn't still be here today.
P.S. - If you got a notification, that means you're in the circle.
2013-06-12 07:17:15 (38 comments, 11 reshares, 96 +1s)
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Today we celebrate two birthdays: first that of Egon Schiele, the famous Austrian artist who was born on June 12th in 1890. But this post is not about him; +Dirk Puehl has already done a wonderful post about him here: http://goo.gl/zqMg7, so I can focus on the second artist with a birthday today: Henry Scott Tuke.
Tuke, a child prodigy, was born into a Quaker family, his father a doctor who became Governor of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, the oldest psychiatric Hospital in Europe, often lovingly called "Bedlam". After studying at the Slade School of Art, in Italy and Paris, Tuke returned to England and settled in Newlyn, where a number of his friends from the Slade and Paris had gathered to form a colony of artists called the "Newlyn School". The artists were attracted by the cheaper costs of living, opportunities to paint en plei... more »
2013-06-11 07:52:21 (25 comments, 4 reshares, 96 +1s)
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Another day of rain, so, as a reminder of what summer can be like, here is Brighton Beach by John Constable, best known as an English romantic painter. Constable was born on June 11th in 1776 and painted mainly landscapes.
It is almost ironic that we see him today as a romantic painter, when in fact, he was often at odds with the central elements of romantic art. Romanticism was (in part) a reaction against increasing urbanization and industrialization, the age of enlightenment and the accompanying loss of the mysterious, of contact with nature. In response, romantic visual art focused on the wilder, idealized and untamable aspects of nature.
In contrast to this reigning paradigm, Constable felt that:
"There is room enough for a natural painter. The great vice of the present day is bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the trut... more »
2013-06-10 14:26:04 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)
Should Business Leaders learn from the Art World?
Kevin Daum says leadership should be based on lessons not from Business School and spreadsheets, but from <gasp> _the Arts!_
But he is quite right and here's why:
Projects somehow work: Opening Nights take place - you don't have a lot of announcements about a coming production, .... and then never hear about it again - so: somehow, projects get done in the art world.
Big egos somehow collaborate: Stars, eccentrics, egos and conflicts of interests; here the art world has at least as many 'challenges' as any corporation ever had. And yet, the fact that productions take place shows that they make it work, - so: managing, motivating and promoting collaboration works in the art world.
Everyone is somehow accountable: each and every person, whether it's a sta... more »
2013-06-10 07:29:08 (35 comments, 8 reshares, 104 +1s)
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After the excursion to the US in the 20 century, with today's post, we return firmly to Europe and the 19th century to celebrate the birthday of *Benjamin Constant,* the French painter who was born on June 10th, in 1845. Constant, whose full name was Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, both in Toulouse and in Paris.
Constant spent time in Spain in 1870-1871, most likely to escape the Franco-Prussian War. His visits to Madrid, Toledo, Córdoba and Granada, as well as his subsequent, two year long journeys in North Africa were decisive in forming his attraction to both oriental landscapes and scenes.
Here in his Favorite of the Emir we can see both: the azure sky and coastal waters in the background, and the interior of the Emir's harem in the foreground, the Emir's 'favo... more »
2013-06-09 09:19:41 (16 comments, 6 reshares, 67 +1s)
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Today we remember Jacob Lawrence, one of the best known African America Artists of the 20th century who died on June 9th in the year 2000. From the age of 13, Lawrence grew up in Harlem, NYC, which was a vibrant community, and offered just about the only opportunity for training for black artists at the time. Lawrence's early training with Charles Alston was surely a factor in his receiving a fellowship at the age of only 23.
This fellowship was for the completion of a series of 60 panels dealing with the "Great Migration" of about 1.6 million African Americans from rural areas in Southern States to Northern States, looking for jobs and better opportunities.
Lawrence researched the subjects of the paintings, learning not only from news sources and books, but also from oral narratives told by the inhabitants of the Harlem Community. The... more »
2013-06-08 11:11:41 (21 comments, 21 reshares, 150 +1s)
Good Afternoon Google+
Today we celebrate the birthday of John Everett Millais, who was born on June 8th in 1829 and was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Pre-Raphaelites were the Avant-Garde of the 19th century. They rebelled against academic painting, as well as what they considered to be artificial "tricks" and conventions that had crept into art after Raphael. They wanted to return to the realistic, spontaneous depiction of nature and objects.
Millais' Ophelia is a wonderful example of Pre-Raphaelite painting:
- the incredible level of detail of the plants both in front of and behind the stream that Ophelia lies in,
- as well as the subject itself - the first Pre-Raphaelites often chose subjects from Poetry, specifically Shakespeare, Keats or Tennyson, and finally
- the spiritual air about the painting - Ophelia li... more »
2013-06-07 12:59:02 (19 comments, 6 reshares, 53 +1s)
For #firstfridayartwalk : Gottfried Helnwein at the Albertina
The Albertina in Vienna is holding a retrospective of Gottfried Helnwein, probably one of the best internationally known Austrian artists of the day. Helnwein's paintings, photos and events have always been regarded as purposely shocking the suburban, bourguois mind. Much of his work deals with his rebellion against the dishonest society he perceived in his youth. Growing up in the 1950's and 60's in Austria, he experienced all of the repression and denial about WWII, the Nazis and the subtle evil of child raising of that time (see Alice Miller on child rearing), which has been a constant element in his painting.
In this painting, a Self Portrait from 1982, we see elements often repeated in his work, bandages, as here, often around the head, and eyes that are both blocked and actually endangered by the... more »
2013-06-07 08:31:06 (13 comments, 8 reshares, 38 +1s)
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch, the foremost Austrian painter of the 18th century, was baptized on June 7th, 1724. Maulbertsch painted many frescos throughout the Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Since many of these paintings and frescos were away from the central, main cultural locations, neither they, nor the artist who created them are all that well known today.
Nevertheless, Maulbertsch had managed to create his own style, using some of the dramatic elements of the lighthearted Baroque and Rococo, while introducing some small elements of neo-classicism as well.
In this video, enjoy a tour of his frescos in the Church of Maria Treu in the 8th District in Vienna, called Josefstadt, to the Ave Maria by Franz Schubert. A wonderful combination.
For a virtual tour of the church interior, see here: http://goo.gl/rJWPU
Have a wo... more »
2013-06-06 04:02:27 (18 comments, 8 reshares, 79 +1s)
Good Morning Google+
The French Nabi painter, Ker~Xavier Roussel died on June 6th, 1944.
I'm terribly sorry, but today you need to do the work yourself, check him out, I hope to resume regular service tomorrow ;-)
Have a wonderful day and tread lightly
#art #treadlightly #artandclassontheplus
2013-06-05 12:07:12 (13 comments, 4 reshares, 66 +1s)
Good Afternoon Google+
Today I would like to introduce you to a "living" Artwork, the Loos Haus in Payerbach, Lower Austria, from which I have just returned. As the name implies, the house was designed by Adolf Loos an Austrian architect whose work and especially writing had an enormous effect on modern architecture.
While Loos designed a number of buildings both internationally and in Vienna, his lasting influence on modern architecture is based mainly on this writings. Loos was part of a group of Viennese intellectuals that included Karl Kraus (author), Peter Altenberg (poet), Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosopher) and Arnold Schönberg (composer), each of whose work went totally counter to the trends of theatricality of their day.
Loos himself criticized the Art Nouveau movement of the Vienna Secession (which wasn't so Nouveau anymore), particularly th... more »
2013-06-04 13:09:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
Protest to save Mes Aynak in Los Angeles on June 16th
Not once have I shared anything from facebook, but this is worth an exception: As the article below shows, there may be some hope for the Buddhas of Mes Aynak. So I would beg ask anyone of my Google+ friends in the Los Angeles area to take part in this peaceful protest in Los Angeles on June 16th, to demonstrate that we all, do care about the potential destruction of this amazing site!
Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/411408222299991/?fref=ts
A heartfelt thank you to all who show up!
#afghanistan #treadlightly
2013-06-04 12:09:14 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)
Another great article by a Forbes contributor
I won't spoil your fun by repeating what's in the article, just one quote as a teaser:
One wonders if we will ever see the day when Americans will stop falling for the hostage-taking narrative consistently put forward by those whose job it is to defend the indefensible. At the first suggestion of finally putting a chink in Wal-Mart’s policy of profiting at the taxpayers’ expense—a practice that should have every American thinking about what passes for free-enterprise in the United States today—the response is to always threaten to take away jobs if we dare to challenge their business practices, even if those practices cost us billions.
And before you tell me what a lefty, pinko, communist I am, read the comments and Rick Ungar's responses - they are worth it all by themselves. ;-)
#wallmart #treadlig... more »
2013-06-04 10:43:43 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)
Does technology give us the right to make our own rules?
+Aaron Wood wrote here (http://goo.gl/VJlFC) about a post by +David Shellabarger here (http://goo.gl/B3C9z), in which David rather proudly displayed the results of (illegally) talking photos of the Sistene Chapel using Google Glass. The resulting discussions in both posts are worth reading.
Both posts throw up a number of issues, most of which are not new, but are exacerbated by new technologies. I mean issues of copyright and privacy, but also some basic questions about online sharing and morality.
Is it OK to break rules and share/publish the results just because you can?
First off, let's differentiate right up front 'breaking of rules' in cases of civil disobedience, such as the Arab Spring and similar cases, from cases where the main point seems to be a personal statemen... more »
2013-06-04 07:01:47 (28 comments, 7 reshares, 60 +1s)
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After the "Traditional" art of the last days, I hope to be forgiven this post about Louis Soutter, the #swiss artist who was born on June 4th in 1871. Like many artists, Soutter's life began well and ended in personal tragedy.
After studying engineering, architecture and music (the violin), he turned to art and studied painting in Lausanne. He married, moved to Colorado Springs and became Director of the Fine Arts Department at Colorado College.
Then things began to go wrong: according to various theories, either a case of typhoid, depression and/or the divorce from his wife caused him to move back to Switzerland, where he took and soon lost jobs as a Violinist with the Symphonies of Lausanne and Geneva. Not succeeding at supporting himself with odd jobs, his violin was finally confiscated to cover his debts, and his family ha... more »
2013-06-03 08:51:20 (12 comments, 11 reshares, 49 +1s)
After almost two years of Google+, I truly understand what I do with it now. I host internet parties!
2013-06-03 08:33:23 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)
Excellent article about "Social is Not A Destination" at Forbes
+Tristan Louis writes about the differences between social platforms and correctly notes that while others (fb, twitter, etc.) try to create new environments or destinations, Google+ does not. Rather, it provides what +Thomas Power (to whom I owe this link) calls the "glue" that connects existing tools that users already have as part of their daily online activities.
This creates a completely different user experience, you don't have to go to Google+, it's already there. Whether you receive notifications of posts in Gmail - and can answer from Gmail as well, or you search for something and see if/what people you know have said about the topic, or the increasing integration of YouTube, etc. Google+ serves as the integrating glue that binds these applications together.
I... more »
2013-06-03 08:03:15 (11 comments, 9 reshares, 50 +1s)
Had an interesting email exchange with Telefónica en Perú. They asked for permission to use this photo I took of Machu Picchu. I granted it to them for free even though they are a commercial enterprise. They seemed happy. However, a few weeks later they said they heard from their legal department. They asked that I sign a form declaring that I will bear all their legal costs and liability in the event that any third party sues them because of the photo. I crafted a polite response explaining what I thought of that request.
2013-06-03 06:40:25 (30 comments, 4 reshares, 74 +1s)
Good Morning Google+
To start the week with a bang, today's painting is the Mountain Landscape with Lightening by Francisque Millet, a French painter who was buried on June 3rd in 1697. Not much is really known about Francisque Millet, probably because:
1. he seldom signed his work
2. there were a number of painters by the same name, among them his own son and the later born "Jean-François Millet".
What is known is that he painted mainly landscapes, many with either religious or mythical connotations.
Currently, much of Austria along the Danube is suffering from flooding because of the interminable rain we've been having. As so often, some of the areas most affected are historical towns in the Wachau. Though the mountains in this painting are much higher than anything you will find there, the image of the river flowing and the slightly ap... more »
2013-06-02 11:59:57 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 23 +1s)
News from Turkey, from my friend Bahar Sayan
#Turkey #turkeyprotests #OccupyGezi #solidarity
This is a summary of the events in Turkey, and the underlying reasons as to why so many peaceful people have decided to take action, in case anyone wonders. The information on the media is somehow lacking and at times, biased.
The trigger
What started as a peaceful protest against the building of a shopping mall (in the form of an Ottoman-era military barrack demolished almost a century ago) in Gezi Park the last piece of green area in the center of Istanbul turned into a city-wide protest against the Islamist AKP government which has been in power for a decade now. Protests have been mildly going on for over a year against the demolishing of Gezi Park. When the construction workers started to destroy the trees four days ago, protesters started to camp at the ... more »
2013-06-02 11:41:26 (67 comments, 35 reshares, 55 +1s)
This can only happen on Google+: Wow, and Thank You!
I am not a celebrity, not a prolific photographer, nor a social media “guru”. And yet suddenly, I find myself in the circles of more than 50 Thousand people. Wow, and thank each and every one of you for your vote of confidence!
Many of you who have added me to your circles in the last few weeks are fairly new to Google+. To help you find great content, and as a way of saying Thank you to some of my “oldest friends” here on Google+, I’m going to indulge myself and share my “Must Read” circle. This circle contains people whose posts I don’t want to miss and it’s open in one of my tabs on Chrome whenever I’m online.
To help you decide if and whom you would like to include in your own stream, I’m adding some comments about these great people Warning: this contains information about each individual in the h... more »
2013-06-03 06:24:57 (19 comments, 5 reshares, 73 +1s)
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Sundays are, for many people in the west, days of leisure and rest. This painting, Bather with Child and Swan by the Sea by Paul-Albert Besnard, a French academic painter born on June 2nd, 1849, may help to set the mood.
Much like yesterday's artist, Nauen, Besnard enjoyed recognition during his lifetime, but has been relegated to the 'back benches' by more attention to more famous artists in modern times. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts at the age of 17 and won the coveted Prix de Rome at 25, a prize that brought with it not just honor but a sponsored, four-year stay in Rome. He was influenced by Impressionism, and fascinated by its focus on color and light, as well as the paintings of some of the giants of his time, Ingres, with whom he had studied, as well as the works of Delacroix, Reynolds and Gainsborough, whose work he studi... more »
2013-06-01 07:09:00 (19 comments, 8 reshares, 73 +1s)
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A bit of sun this morning is cause for celebration, as is the birthday of Heinrich Nauen, the German painter who was born on June 1st, 1880.
Nauen was originally greatly influenced by the work of Van Gogh and spent a number of years in Belgium in an artists colony, painting mostly landscapes. He returned to Germany and lived in Berlin, where he came into contact with the rising German Expressionist movement and a member of the Brücke movement. Nauen remained true to his expressionist style throughout his life as an artist and became one of the foremost artists of the what in Germany is known as the "Rheinländischer Expressionismus" group, a loose association of artists all living and working in the region in northern Germany along the Rhein.
For many years, Nauen lived in a wing of Schloß Dilborn, whose wonderful park and gardens insp... more »
2013-06-01 06:23:57 (30 comments, 8 reshares, 67 +1s)
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It is unusually cold and rainy this morning, so in protest, I am calling #funfriday . To help get into the mood, today's painting is The origin of the Milky Way by Tintoretto, the Venetian mannerist painter who died on May 31st in 1594.
Let's start at the beginning: the term "Milky Way" is based on the Greek galaxias (adj.), in galaxias kyklos, literally "milky circle," and is closely related to Greek Mythology. The almighty Zeus (Jupiter), known for his incessant womanizing, had fathered the child Heralcles (Hercules) with the mortal woman Alcmene. He loved this child and, in order to bestow immortality on it, he held the boy to feed at the breast of his sleeping wife Hera (Juno). Understandably, this woke Hera (Heracles looks like he already had teeth), who, startled at both the pain and the insult, jerked away and spri... more »
2013-05-30 19:55:19 (18 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)
If Corporations' Top Concern is Talent Management, why are they so bad at it?
According to a survey of 1000 Board Members of Corporations across the globe by HBR, Talent Management is the number one issue for corporations, even before innovation, risk management, competition and technology. So, one has to ask: if Talent Management is considered so crucial to enterprises, why are they doing such a poor job of it?
The survey shows that in grading themselves, the executives across all industries on average gave themselves less than 16 points out of one hundred in the area of retaining talent and even less than 15 out of 100 for developing talent.
One answer might be that, while Talent Management is considered to be crucial to long term well being at corporations, most still leave it to HR departments to identify, hire and develop the so-called '... more »
2013-05-30 08:56:20 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)
One for the "Yes, but.." Category
Yesterday, +Fast Company had an article about the 10,000 Pink Balloons in Kabul, Afghanistan undertaking, with a cute video about the endeavor. My first thought was, 'what a nice idea', however, in researching the event, I came across some different opinions here: http://goo.gl/ow3Yr, and here: http://goo.gl/MHzu5.
In a nutshell, the criticism focuses on the fact that the people of Kabul live in daily fear of their lives; just the night before this event, insurgents attacked the International Organization for Migration (IOM), killing one Afghani policeman and wounding 12 others. In view of these circumstances, the initiator of the Balloon Project, Colombian born Yazmany Arboleda, called his event "nothing short of a miracle".
Gestures of peace are a great thing, yet I can't help but wonder about h... more »
2013-06-01 06:24:01 (8 comments, 7 reshares, 69 +1s)
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Serendipity strikes again (can you tell it's one of my favorite concepts?)
The 1st piece of evidence of serendipity: Yesterday's artist, Hans Makart, was greatly influenced by the work of Peter Paul Rubens, who died on this day, May 29th in 1640 - about 200 years before Makart's birth.
The 2nd piece of evidence of serendipity: Today is the (mainly) Catholic Feast of "Corpus Christi", which was instituted sometime in the 13th centuries to commemorate the Last Supper. Because the actual chronology of the Last Supper falls in the middle of of the Passion Week just before Easter, it had always seemed irreverent to celebrate the event of the Last Supper on the actual 'date' of its occurrence. This was rectified in 1246 by Pope Urban IV in a papal bull, instituting the feast in the Latin Rite. One of the most interesting (not to ... more »
2013-05-29 21:29:10 (14 comments, 11 reshares, 59 +1s)
Famous last words... before I sign off, Good Night G+
#treadlightly
PS: image from a friend's post on that other place
2013-05-29 21:05:05 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)
First and foremost, Trust Yourself!
When you rear about a study, do you look at the results (numbers/facts) or only read the conclusions? Like many people in this fast paced time, I usually skip to the conclusions. Though, as this article from +Big Think, which is based on interviews with Linus Pauling, the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, shows, that is probably not the best basis for a sound opinion.
Key points:
"...he was struck by how many papers he encountered in the scientific literature that showed a divergence between the results obtained and the conclusions drawn. Authors, he found, tended to fashion conclusions around their own belief biases as much as around the actual data they reported."
"What's so insidious about this is that other researchers who cite a given study will tend to quote from the conclusions ... more »
2013-05-29 06:38:56 (14 comments, 14 reshares, 80 +1s)
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May 29th, 1840 saw the birth of Hans Makart, an Austrian painter and interior designer who was one of the first art 'rock stars', to the point of having a style named after him, the 'Makart Style'.
The main elements of this style were his use of color and sensuality. Taking his inspiration from both Rubens and Titian, Makart's figures are voluptuous, his colors bright - at times he even mixed his colors with asphalt to intensify them (which has not, however, improved their durability). His art reflected the period of his time and was grandiose, large, and opulent. This was the time when the famous palaces were built along the Ringstraße, Vienna's most noble Avenue, comparable to the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Both his use of color and sensuality are obvious in this painting, the Triumph of Ariadne, often also called Bacch... more »
2013-05-28 06:51:11 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 67 +1s)
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Today I would like to introduce you to the German artist Jörg Immendorff, who died of ALS just five years ago, on May 28th in 2007.
Like many artists in modern time, Immendorff was what in German is known as a "Quergeist": a contrarian thinker and outsider. Thrown out of his art school, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf not for lack of talent but intransigence and his neo-dadaistic actions, he entered Joseph Beuys academy, which he also left because of differences with Beuys. Ironically, he was later to become a professor of art at the same Düsseldorf academy that had originally expelled him.
Immendorff was an intensely political person, which is reflected in his art. His best known works are a series of 16 large paintings called Café Deutschland, of which this is one. The series was painted between 1977 and 1984, includes not only the 16... more »
2013-05-27 20:34:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
It's more than time for a second episode of the European Photo Show with +Ugo Cei and +Michael Muraz!
Discover some of Europe's finest photographers through their images, but also through their lives, their genres, their city and their best spots.
This week we are welcoming +Athena Carey, +Julia Anna Gospodarou, +Michael Diblicek and +Andy Bitterer for a show around Long Exposure Photography. We'll discover each photographer and their long exposure universe and they will share their latest images.
Join us next Thursday at 8PM CET! Please share the event and invite as many people as possible.
2013-05-27 12:09:30 (11 comments, 5 reshares, 27 +1s)
Not only Individuals can suffer from burnout, Collectives can too!
+David Amerland's post about tired business reminded me of an article in our Newspaper DerStandard from 2010 about organizational burout. Here is my loose translation/summary of a phenomenon that is probably more true now than ever before.
Burnout has become an endemic disease, and it is still on the increase, affecting not only individuals.
Torsten Jung, the CEO of the Beratergruppe Neuwaldegg claims that burnout is increasingly affecting not only individuals, but whole organizations. His “Organizational Burnout” model is based one of his programs to combat stress and prevent burnout, and analyzes root causes as well as delivers options for combating the syndrome.
Originally, he developed the program for individuals, however, he quickly found that organizations can present simila... more »
2013-05-29 06:24:14 (10 comments, 24 reshares, 73 +1s)
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... and welcome to this Mannerist Monday, on which we celebrate Pellegrino Tibaldi, the Italian painter and architect who died on May 27th in 1596. Tibaldi, who had first been commissioned to design the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna, later also received a commission to paint frescoes in the Palazzo.
This, his Ulysses Blinding Polyphemus is one of the series of Stories of Ulysses he executed as part of that commission. It shows Ulysses blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus, who, according to the Odyssey of Homer, had trapped Ulysses and 12 of his men on his island (said to be Sicily) and kept them in a cave, only to take out two at a time and eat them. To escape, Ulysses and his men sharpened the stem of a tree, got Polyphemus drunk and then Ulysses blinded him by ramming the tree into the Cyclops' single eye.
Tibaldi was a 'mannerist' pa... more »
2013-05-26 07:51:00 (20 comments, 11 reshares, 101 +1s)
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On this promising Sunday morning, let's celebrate the Birthday of *Spencer Gore,* the English artist who was born on May 26th in 1878. Gore only lived to be 34, dying of pneumonia in 1914, and was revered by his fellow artists not only for his talent and work, but also because he seems to have been a wonderful person as well. Unlike many artists, Gore had a sense of tact and goodwill towards others, which enabled him to be a leading figure in the Camden Town Group of artists in London. (For more on the group, see the extensive information at The Tate here: http://goo.gl/EiEqL)
Gore's early work was heavily influenced by Impressionism, but after seeing an exhibition of their work, he became fascinated with the work of Gauguin and Cezanne, adopting their post-impressionist style of using simplified forms and flat, bright colors, such as in this pai... more »
2013-05-26 04:20:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)
Just to prove that even in complacent, conservative Austria, people are actively interested and engaged
2013-05-25 07:04:56 (20 comments, 6 reshares, 78 +1s)
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Today is the birthday of Carlo Dolci, a Florentine Baroque painter who was born on May 25th, 1616. He was a bit of an anomaly among the artists of his day. Most of his contemporaries were developing the Baroque style and painting in what in German is somewhat irreverently called "Barvourmalerei", creating complicated perspectives, showy and overcrowded compositions, and portraying artificial, excessive opulence on large scale, in large frecos and fairly quickly done works. In contrast, Dolci 's paintings are quite small, with painstaking attention to detail; his brother is reported to have said of him: "He would take weeks over a single foot".
It was this attention to details that limited the number of works he painted. Supposedly, it also indirectly led to his death (though he was 70 at the time). In Florence in 1682, after see... more »
2013-05-24 11:49:23 (11 comments, 19 reshares, 58 +1s)
My personal favorite Disruptive Technology
What a stunningly simple, yet fabulous idea!
Solar Roadways (sidewalks, parking lots, etc.) would:
- create energy
- be simpler to maintain - switching panels is much faster than ripping up and replacing tarmac
- reduce the need for oil, both by eliminating the oil-based asphalt and by enabling charging stations for electric vehicles just about anywhere
- eliminate problems of salting or even shoveling roads because they would have to have built-in heating sources
"The 12- x 12-foot panels, which each cost $6,900, are designed to be embedded into roads. When shined upon, each panel generates an estimated 7.6 kilowatt hours of power each day. If this electricity could be pumped into the grid, the company predicts that a four-lane, one-mile stretch of road with panels could generate enough power for 500 h... more »
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