English Title: Hush-sh-sh 

Spanish Title: Chiton 

An excellent woman to trust with a confidential message.

Spanish Title: Quien mas rendido? 

English Title: Which of the Two Loves More?

Spanish Title: Y a tienen asiento 

English Title: Plenty of room 

These nice girls have enough chairs, but they know nothing better to do with them than to wear them on their heads.

Spanish Title: Si Quebrò el Cantaro 

English Title: The Pitcher Broke 

The boy is a scamp, and the mother is a nag. What a pair!

Artist: Peter August Böckstiegel 1889-1951

Auszug der Junglinge in den Krieg, Studie ( Departure of the Youngsters for War, Study ), 1914

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Artist: Peter August Böckstiegel 1889-1951

Die Mutter ( The Mother ) c. 1915 

Peter August Böckstiegel

Born is Westphalia in 1889, Böckstiegel moved to Dresden in 1913 to pursue his studies at the academy.

Back from the war in 1919 he became a founding member of the Dresdner Sezession Gruppe 1919.

His work shows him to have been a painter whose temperament kept him close to Nature Basing his work on the central experience of his encounter with Van Gogh, he used a heavy impasto and sweeping brush strokes to evoke the lush landscape and the looming figures of the people of Westphalia.

Whatever he touched - painting - printmaking or terra-cotta sculpture - bears witness to the elemental vitality of his creative impulses.

In his woodcuts he deployed a simple, powerful line.

Böckstiegel divided his working time between Westphalia and Dresden.

He remained close to the agricultural landscape all is life, and he was not enough of a townsman to succumb, during the one year he spent as a member of the Secession, to the intellectual communism of his brother-in-law 

Felixmuller and his painter friends.

Even so in 1921 he designed a poster for IAH ( Internationale Arbeiterhilfe , International Workers' Aid ), a body promoting solidarity with the cause of labour.

Only one work from 1919, done after Böckstiegel joined the Secession, is still known to us: a figure group titled Singende Kinder am Meer ( Children Singing   by the Sea), largely executed in the Secession style, with a background dominated by the moon and stars.

A second painting, Offenbarung ( Revelation), is known only by its tittle.

Also lost are woodcuts with the highly characteristic period tittles do Die Wanderer des Lebens ( The Wanderers of Life), and Klage deer Frauen ( The Women's Lament), his major graphic statements belong to the ensuing Years.

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Random words and phrases
Days go by MMaxi10


Spring is here and the birds are starting to celebrate nature
Time for me to get my camera and start taking snaps of the city as it changes from gray into a bright green
Weekend Rest
Cook maybe some carne de vinho e alhos
Bake a cake as well it can't be that difficult
Do some blogging less face more me
It's back to the study of German Expressionism 1915 - 1925 The Second Generation
I'm not a fast reader after 4 years I managed to read 48 pages 75 more
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october 23rd 2006 

Started with the Introduction

I started on

http://www.blogg.org/blog-43176-date-2006-10-23-billet-otto_dix_-461862.html

Otto dix "Selbstbildnis als Soldat"                             Check link Above

October 29 2006

I started on

Prewar, Wartime, and Postwar

Conrad felixmuller, bildinis Raoul Hausmann ( portrait of raoul hausmann )

http://www.blogg.org/blog-43176-date-2006-10-29-billet-conrad_felixmuller__bildinis_raoul_hausmann___portrait_of_raoul_hausmann__-465760.html

Expressionism in Berlin from 1912 to the early 1920s                                    Check link above

And 14 pages later 18 avril 2009  Max Hermann Max Pechstein, Selfbildnis mit Tod 1920-21

http://www.blogg.org/blog-43176-date-2009-04-18-billet-max_pechtsein_self_portrait_with_death-1012614.html

                                                                                                         Check link above

The last snow of February 2010?

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MMaxi10Amsterdam                                                             Last of the snow 2010

MMaxi10Amsterdam                                                                   Last of the snow 2010