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Portal of Wat Pan Tao
yesterday's drawing:on our way to the night market in Chiang Mai we stopped at the temple we had visited yesterday.Since hence the kids wanted a little break we decided to rest and I thought I use the...
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Bodo Förster's Elephant Special Tours
the situation of the asian elephant (elephas maximus) is a most precarious one:on the most peopled continent with shrinking forest stands the population of elephants which are living in the wild is...
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old mansion at Lietzensee
I had a funtime today with the local urban sketchers. We went drawing at the Lietzensee.old mansion next to the hotel Seehof
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The Vikings are in Berlin!
...and they anchored right across the Government Quarter at Schiffbauerdamm 19!the "Havhingsten fra Glendalough"(sea stallion of Glendalough) in front of the trainstation Friedrichsstraße and the...
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Visiting the Kupferstichkabinett
Last tuesday me and my fellow illustrator friends Heidi Kull and Miriam Häusler went on an educational excursion to the Kupferstichkabinett, the museum for drawing and prints at the Kulturforum at...
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Trainstations in the south of Berlin
Two drawings of my favourite trainstations in Berlin:The first one is the U-train station Dahlem Dorf, which is sited directly next to the open air-museum and ecological farm Domäne Dahlem, where old...
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Greisinger Museum
In a hole in the ground...in Switzerland in the Canton of Graubünden, Grisons, there is the only museum in the world which is solemnly dedicated to Middle-earth and J.R.R.Tolkien.the biggest fun for me...
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silent protest
I'm very much impressed by the urban sketchers in Hongkong, who are documenting the incidents around the occupy central movement.The artists have created a special Facebook-page, which is very much...
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report in "Durch:starten"
There's a brief report on me and my work in the new issue of the "Durch:starten" the magazine of the German Job-information centre, which helps young people to introduce them to all kinds of possible...
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Happy birthday, Adolph Menzel!
Today 199 years ago Adolph Menzel was born in Breslau.This selfportrait (published on zeno.org) from 1899 showcases brilliantly the painterly drawing style of his late period: he used a broad and soft...
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seasonal greetings
Seasonal greetings to you all! A merry Christmas and all the best for 2015!!!This year a really bad cold sneaked upon me and turned Christmas nearly into a Cristmess...It all started with a subtly...
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Viking exhibition in the Martin Gropius Bau
The great viking exhibition in Martin Gropius Bau is still running till the 4th of January. "Die Wikinger" is curated by the National Museum of Denmark, the British Museum London and the museum for...
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Xing Nian Kuai Le! Happy Chinese New Year!
Ruhende Schafe am Waldrand, Heinrich von Zügel, 1873To everybody a happy new year of the ram!
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St Paul's seen from "the Southquarters"
St. Paul's cathedral seen from the Southquarters, where I stayed for a workshop that I accompanied as a Graphic Recorder.I couldn't leave without drawing that beautiful view.
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cast collection of the ancient world in Berlin
the so called "Juno Ludivisi" inspired especially in the late 18th century artists like Winckelmann and Goethe. Since the late 19th century more and more scientists assumed that the colossal bust...
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New Year's Concert in the Natural History Museum
The visit of the new year's concert in the dinosaur hall of the natural history museum became a dear tradition for me.The hall does not only have great accustics, but to listen to classical music among...
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Hauptstrasse 155...
Today I took a walk to Hauptstrasse 155, which is quite close to where we live.It's the house where David Bowie used to live from 1976 to 1978.It was a very touching moment with many people dropping by...
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Drawing from nature with children
On Saturday I took my kids Kai (10) and Benny (7) to join me drawing with the Urban Sketchers in the cast collection of the ancient world.I was amazed of how long they could sit still and keep...
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Caspar David Friedrich paintings on display again
After three years of restauration the two most important paintings of german romanticism by Caspar David Friedrich are on display again in the alte Nationalgalerie.Caspar David Friedrich, Selfportrait...
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