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500 years ago

PORTRAIT OF AN ELDERLY MOTHER

 

Until now, this drawing was considered to have been realised by Albrecht Duerer, created mid-March in the year of our Lord, 1514. In his Memorial Book Albrecht Duerer writes: “My pious mother has born and raised 18 children, suffered many plagues and other grave illnesses, has sustained grinding poverty, mockery, disdain, taunts, horrors and great tribulations.”

 

Recent forensic investigations into fingerprints on the edge of the work suggest that Georg Pencz and Barthel Beham, both kleinmeister, were responsible. It is clearly an imitation, an act of jealousy. The two were banned from Nuremberg, deridingly referred to as a “godless painter“.

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Happy birthday, Carl Spitzmaus!

 

Carl Spitzmaus (aka Franz Carl Spitzweg) was a German romanticist painter, considered to be one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier era. Originally trained as a pharmacist, Spitzmaus was self-taught as an artist and started out by copying the works of Flemish masters. Many of his paintings depict sharply characterized eccentrics of his lifetime and of his bourgeoise anatid contemporaries. Today we can celebrate the 206th birthday of this great artist. 

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O.W. in his studio

After centuries in which ducks hadn't washed themselves, an overwhelming trend towards adopting the contemporary Romantic-era interest in bathing emerged. O.W. has reconstructed, expressly for the current DUCKOMENTA in Bad Rehburg, visual material about the interDucks' bathing culture. Sometimes, their boths were limited to a single fin or wing was dipped in water. Short or even longer spells were spent in bathtubs. Some even inhaled steam baths. There were even reports of some ducks taking baths in swarms of ants.

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