#1867-1952 polish

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Born near Odessa on the Crimean peninsula, Soter August Jaxa-Małachowski (1867-1952) was closely linked with Kraków for many years. His maritime landscapes are still commonly found in many of the city’s apartments. Sadly, after the Second World War the artist was largely forgotten. It is only recently that his works are making a return to the public consciousness, thanks to retrospective exhibitions and critics’ reviews. The exhibition Soter Jaxa-Małachowski. On the 150th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birthday at the Krzysztofory Palace presents distinctive Baltic landscapes and other examples of his extensive body of work, such as landscapes of Kraków, the Tatra Mountains, rural Poland, the Italian and Dalmatian coast and Venice. Around a century ago he used to be described as a “pedigree landscape painter” by critics captivated by his technique and sensitivity to natural beauty. (dd) －October 6, 2017 ～ January 7, 2018. The Krzysztofory Palace, Rynek Główny 35.

Soter Jaxa-Małachowski, “Polskie morze” / Сотер Малаховский, “Польское море“

[opera-ghosts]

Rare photos of sopranos, who once sang Isolde in "Tristan und Isolde" by R. Wagner, in the role.

Sebeők Sári (1886 - 1952), Hungarian soprano

Emmy Sofia Streng (1862 - 1913), Finnish soprano

Beatrice Sutter-Kottlar (1883 - 1935), Austrian soprano

Paula Ucko-Hüsgen (1879 -1932), German soprano

Fanny Wahrmann-Schöllinger (1885-1970), German soprano

Sophie Wiesner

Anna Zoder (1882-?), Austrian soprano

Felicia Kaschowska (1867 - 1951), Polish soprano

Annie Gura-Hummel (1884-1964), German soprano

Mathilde Frankel-Claus (1868-1941), Austrian soprano

Rosina Buckman (1881 – 1948) , New Zealand soprano

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Birthdays 11.15

Beer Birthdays

Grant Wood (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

J.G. Ballard; English writer (1930)

Daniel Barenboim; Argentinian-Israeli pianist & conductor (1942)

Georgia O'Keeffe; artist (1887)

Wayne Thiebaud; artist (1920)

Sam Waterson; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Franklin Pierce Adams; journalist & author (1881)

Eusebius Amort; German poet (1692)

Edward Asner; actor (1929)

Gemma Atkinson; actor, model (1984)

Joanna Barnes; actress (1934)

Cynthia Breazeal; computer scientist (1967)

Kevin S. Bright; director (1954)

Carol Bruce; singer & actress (1919)

Mary E. Byrd; astronomer (1849)

Văn Cao; Vietnamese composer, poet & painter (1923)

Jimmy Choo; Malaysian fashion designer (1948)

Petula Clark; country singer (1928)

Gerry Connolly; Australian comedian & actor (1957)

Beverly D'Angelo; actress (1951)

Emma Dumont; actress and model (1994)

Tibor Fischer; English author (1959)

Gloria Foster; actress (1933)

Felix Frankfurter; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1882)

Judy Gold; comedian and actress (1962)

René Guénon; French-Egyptian philosopher (1886)

Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (913)

Gerhart Hauptmann; German writer (1862)

William Herschel; German-English astronomer (1738)

Joe Hinton; singer (1929)

Rick Kemp; English singer-songwriter, bass player (1941)

Yaphet Kotto; actor (1937)

Emil Krebs; German polyglot (1867)

Johann Kaspar Lavater; Swiss poet & physiognomist (1741)

Virginie Ledoyen; French actress (1976)

Joe Leeway; English pop singer-songwriter (1955)

Curtis LeMay; air force general (1906)

Anni-Frid Lyngstad; pop singer (1945)

Mantovani; Italian composer (1905)

C.W. McCall; country singer (1928)

Clyde McPhatter; singer (1932)

Bill Melendez; Mexican-American animator & director (1916)

Jonny Lee Miller; English-American actor (1972)

Marianne Moore; poet (1887)

Kevin J. O'Connor; actor (1963)

Ol' Dirty Bastard; rapper and producer (1968)

Daniel Pinkwater; author & illustrator (1941)

William Pitt "the Elder"; English politician (1708)

Alvin Plantinga; philosopher (1932)

Seldon Powell; jazz saxophonist, flautist (1928)

Joseph Quesnel; French-Canadian poet, playwright & composer (1746)

Erwin Rommel; German field marshall (1891)

Randy Savage; wrestler (1952)

Madeleine de Scudéry; French author (1607)

Johannes Secundus; Dutch poet & author (1511)

Sacheverell Sitwell; English author (1897)

Antoni Słonimski; Polish journalist, poet & playwright (1895)

Randy Thomas; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1954)

Rachel True; actress (1966)

Joseph A. Wapner; television judge (1919)

James Widdoes; actor & director (1953)

Thomas Williams; author (1926)

Shailene Woodley; actress (1991)

[suzetteshea]

Capri, Skały Faraglioni, 1927 

Soter Małachowski-Jaxa, (Polish, 1867 - 1952)

[prettylittleproblem]

Soter Jaxa-Małachowski. Polish, (1867-1952). Moonlit Night, ca. 1930s.

[polishpaintersonly]

“Winter in Zakopane”

Soter Jaxa-Małachowski (Polish;1867-1952)

oil on canvas, private collection

[princeluckybug13]

@mean-scarlet-deceiver wanted to see my timeline, so here it is! Obviously this is for the Skarloey Railway and is completely based on my canon. So this is not meant to be super accurate to the any actual timeline. Hopefully this makes some semblance of sense, and I did rearrange many episodes (that are getting major overhauls). Feel free to ask any questions, and I’ll do my best to answer!

(ps Jobey, the project was just my horrible abomination of my “Murphy’s Law” AU lol) 

Crosspatch (1864)

Bucking Bronco/The Grand Opening (1865)

Rheneas and the Dinosaur/Push Me, Pull You (1866)

The Old Bridge (1867)

Stick-in-the-Mud (1868)

Skarloey Storms Through (1871)

Wharf and Peace (1874)

Missing Trucks/Missing Cars (1875)

 Skarloey Remembers (May 1952)

Sir Handel (May 1952)

Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady (May 1952)

Old Faithful (June 1952)

A Smooth Ride (1953)

The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop/The Refreshment Lady's Stand (1953)

 Rusty Saves the Day (1957)

Which Way Now? (1957)

Trucks (1958)

Home at Last (1958)

Rock n Roll (1958)

Little Old Twins (1959)

Dunkin' Duncan (1959)

Trusty Rusty (1959)

 Special Funnel (January 1961)

Steamroller (March 1961)

Passengers and Polish (July 1961)

Gallant Old Engine (July 1961)

Duncan Does it All (May 1962)

The Runaway Elephant (1962)

Duncan Drops a Clanger (1962)

Rusty to the Rescue (February 1963)

Duck and Dukes  (June 1964)

Sleeping Beauty (August 1964)

 Patience is a Virtue (1982)

Peter Sam and the Prickly Problem (1982)

Pop Special (May 1983)

Sir Handel Comes Home (April 1984)

Fearless Freddie (May 1984)

Ding-a-Ling (June 1984)

The Party Surprise (December 1984)

 The Magic Lamp (August 1988)

Mountain Marvel (September 1988)

Duncan Gets Spooked (October 1988)

Rusty and the Boulder (September 1989)

Toby's Discovery (October 1989)

 Speedkiller (April 1996)

Dirty Water (May 1996)

Sir Handel's Plan (May 1996)

I Name This Engine… (September 1996)

Ivo(Skarloey) the Brave ( December 1996)

Cool Truckings (January 2005)

Whistle Trouble/Tuneful Toots (March 2005)

Wash Behind Your Buffers (April 2005)

Mighty Mac (July 2005)

Duncan and the Hot Air Balloon (July 2006)

Duncan’s Bluff (August 2006)

Duncan and the Old Mine (November 2006)

 Don't Bother Victor! (April 2012)

Blue Mountain Mystery (October 2012)

The Switch (July 2013)

Luke's New Friend (August 2013)

Duncan and the Grumpy Passenger (September 2014)

Duncan the Humbug (December 25, 2014)

[rocketwerks]

Tredegar Iron Works

470 Tredegar Street

Built, 1837

VDHR 127-0186

April 2018

The Confederacy’s indispensable industry.

(Citizen Times) — Tench Coxe, American political economist & a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789

Virginia was a major producer of coal and pig iron during the eighteenth century. Such industries, essentially extractive and technologically primitive, were compatible with a rural and agricultural social order. Existing foundry production was limited to the proverbial swords and plowshares, But an industrial future was predicted, by men like Tench Coxe in 1794, for the seaport at the falls off James River.

April 2019

Richmond had abundant water power and was adjacent to the major-working-coal fields of America. Access to the sea would be complemented by the James River and Kanawha Canal, which reached .to the iron furnaces of the Valley by 1851. By the early nineteenth century, the city was thriving on the basis of flour mills and tobacco factories, commission-merchant houses and banks, and the coal trade. 

April 2019

Two indices of her ante-bellum prosperity were population growth and the many stately residences constructed during that period, Richmond now had the business acumen and capital, as well as the raw materials necessary to sustain a modern-iron industry. The puddling and rolling mills which rose in the city during the 1830's were a response to the market created by the new railroad industry, as well as the tooling and re-tooling needs of established factories and mills. The Tredegar Iron Works--named for the famous works at Tredegar, Wales--were chartered in 1837.

(Pinterest) — Joseph Reid Anderson

The Tredegar's rise to preeminence began in 1841, when Joseph Reid Anderson first became associated with the, then nearly bankrupt, company. During a period of severe depression in the American iron industry, Anderson brought Tredegar a measure of prosperity--something which his predecessor as commission-sales agent had been unable to accomplish under more favorable economic conditions. Having no viable alternative, the directors permitted him to assume operation of the Works, first as lessee then as owner, in November 1843.

(Division of Geology and Mineral Resources) — envelope advertising Tredegar iron products 

Anderson paid his final installment for the Tredegar in January 1854. The Tredegar Iron Company was then dissolved debt free and with capital - remaining for division among the shareholders. J. R. Anderson and Co., the successor firm, was one of the largest and best-equipped ironworks in America. The Company had the capacity to produce, in quantity, nearly any conceivable type of finish iron -- for peace or wartime use.

(The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) — view of the Tredegar Iron Works, with footbridge to Neilson's Island — Alexander Gardner, April 1865

Charles B. Dew epitomizes the tragic flaws of Confederate heavy industry: "Beginning as early as 1862, increasingly acute shortages of raw materials and skilled labor cut Tredegar output sharply." Anderson had no native pool of skilled labor to draw upon when foreign and Northern workers withdrew their services. Severe shortages or raw materials -- inevitable once the blockade was effective, given the poorly developed domestic sources of supply and transportation -- kept Tredegar production at, or below, one-third of capacity for most of the War, At that, Anderson & Co. outproduced every northern ordnance foundry except one. (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)

(Library of Congress) — Tredegar between 1861 and 1865

Tredegar proved invaluable to the Confederacy. Despite shortages in labor and raw materials, nearly 1100 cannon were produced in its foundries, while the rolling mills turned out iron plating for Confederate naval gunboats. Although numerous efforts were made to capture Richmond, and many battles fought on the city's doorstep, it never fell to Union hands, and Tredegar never ceased operation until April 2, 1865.

(Rocket Werks RVA Postcards)

That evening, the Confederate government and army abandoned the city.

Evacuation fires swept through the business district, rapidly approaching Tredegar, but Anderson's workers stayed at their posts and made sure that the facility did not fall to rampaging looters or the flames that were consuming the city. Anderson's efforts to save Tredegar succeeded and in the months and years following the city's collapse, the Iron Works played an instrumental role in rebuilding the defeated South. (National Parks Service)

(Library of Congress) — Tredegar post Evacuation Fire — Alexander Gardner, April 1865 — note the burned-out buildings at right

The Company survived the War, but the Works desperately needed to be reconditioned if they were to be of material assistance in the physical reconstruction of the South. Anderson raised desperately needed fluid capital by the sale of coal mines, and ultimately through dissolution of the partnership in favor of a joint-stock venture. 

April 2019

The Tredegar Company incorporated in 1867, successfully attracted Northern capital, while Anderson and his old partners retained control of the firm. The company had more than regained its prewar capacity when, during the Panic of 1873, several of its leading rail customers went bankrupt, The railroads which had made the old company now broke the new.

April 2019

Iron gave way to steel, but the Tredegar, lacking funds, was unable to make the transition. Richmond gave way to Birmingham; Southern industry to Northern capital; the largest industrial plant of the South became a small local concern. The Tredegar remained in operation until fire gutted the old plant in 1952. The firm, still controlled by the descendants of Joseph Anderson, removed to Chesterfield County at that time.

April 2019

In ruins, the old Tredegar represents not only a nineteenth-century industrial complex but also a contemporary expression of the Picturesque spirit of that century which thrived on romantic ruins as well as standing structures. The walls which once supported the broad roof spans are now free-standing arcades and their Romanesque manner conjures up the images a far earlier age. The old Tredegar Works have a tremendous potential as a part of Richmond's redeveloped riverfront. (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)

April 2019

Bold prophetic words for 1971. Who would have then wagered that the site would rise to become the American Civil War Museum, a western anchor to the larger Brown’s Island complex? 

For those whose familiarity with the Late Unpleasantness could use some polish, you could do much worse than a visit here. There are actually two separate museums on the campus, one for the Tredegar factory, and one for the National Park Service. There’s a modest fee for Tredegar, but the NPS is free, so why not check ‘em out?

(Tredegar Iron Works is part of the Atlas RVA! Project)

[oldpaintings]

Capri, 1906 by Soter Jaxa-Małachowski (Polish, 1867--1952)

[todayclassical]

May 05 in Music History

1627 Funeral of Italian composer Domenico Belli in Florence.

1657 Birth of composer Jacques Danican Philidor.

1680 Birth of composer Giuseppe Porsile.

1708 Birth of German composer Johann Adolf Scheibe in Leipzig. 

1715 Birth of composer Daniel Dal Barba.

1726 FP of Handel's opera  Alessandro at King's Theater, London.

1738 FP of Corselli's "Alessandro nelle Indie" Madrid.

1742 Birth of Italian soprano Elisabetta PilottlI-Schiavonetti. 

1742 FP of Jommelli's "Eumene" Bologna.

1748 Birth of Italian composer Francesco Azopardi in Rabat, Malta. 

1748 Handel starts composing his oratorio Solomon featuring The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.

1749 Birth of composer, pianist and harpsichordist Jean-Frédéric Edelmann.

1755 FP of Gluck's "La danza" Vienna.

1756 Birth of Italian castrato Vincenzo Dal Prato in Imola. 

1764 FP of Giardini's "Enea e Lavinia" London.

1812 FP of Hummel's "Dies Haus ist zu verkaufen" singspiel, Vienna.

1816 Birth of Italian composer Achelli Graffigan.

1819 Birth of Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko in Ubiel, Minsk. 

1819 Birth of Italian baritone Achille De Bassini in Milan. 

1827 Birth of Hungarian baritone Johann Nepomuk Beck in Budapest. 

1837 Death of Italian composer Nicola Antonio Zingarelli in Torre del Greco. 

1842 Death of French tenor Jean Elleviou. 

1842 FP of Thomas' "Guerillero" Paris.

1842 Birth of composer Johann Nepomuk Fuchs.

1846 Birth of composer Federico Chueca.

1848 Birth of composer Adalbert von Goldschmidt.

1853 Birth of German conductor and composer Richard Henneberg in Berlin. 

1854 Birth of Italian baritone Antonio Smareglia in Pola, Istria.

1860 Birth of Italian composer Pietro Florida

1867 Birth of English-American composer T. Tertius Noble.

1869 Birth of German composer and conductor Hans Pfitzne.

1871 Birth of Italian composer Alberto Cametti.

1878 Birth of Italian soprano Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini in Turin. 

1883 Birth of composer Leopold Samuel.

1883 Birth of composer Petar Konjovic.

1885 Birth of English baritone Arthur Cranmer in Birmingham. 

1885 Birth of Paraguayan composer Augustín Barrios Mangoré.

1886 Birth of German bass-baritone Leo Schutzendorf in Cologne. 

1886 Birth of composer Manuel Borguno.

1890 Death of Italian tenor Emilio Naudin.

1891 Opening of Carnegie Hall in NYC, with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of his Marche Solennelle, 'Coronation March'. Also on the program was Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 conducted by Walter Damrosch.

1900 Birth of German conductor Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt in Berlin. 

1905 Birth of Italian soprano Maria Caniglia in Naples.

1907 Birth of composer Yoritsune Matsudaira.

1908 Birth of German bass-baritone Kurt Böhme in Dresden. 

1909 Birth of Czech tenor Antonin Votava in Prague. 

1909 FP of Massenet's "Bacchus" Paris.

1910 Birth of Italian contralto Giulietta Simonato.

1913 Birth of Polish violinist and composer Grazyna Bacewicz in Lodz. 

1916 Birth of composer Mutal' Burkhanov.

1917 FP of Debussy's Violin Sonata with violinist Gaston Poulet, Debussy at the piano in Paris.

1918 Birth of pianist Erbie Bowser.

1924 Birth of German violinist Theo Olof.

1924 FP of Alexander Tansman´s Dance of the Sorcerer in Brussel´s Belgium.

1926 FP of A. Copland's Two Pieces Nocturne and Ukelele Serenade, violinist Samuel Dushkin with the Copland at the piano in Paris.

1927 Birth of American pianist Charles Rosen. 

1927 FP of Alfano's "Madonna Imperia" Turin.

1928 Birth of German bass Gunte Hammer in Berlin.

1928 Birth of Swedish baritone Carrie Nilsson in Tranas.

1930 FP of D. Milhaud's opera Christophe Colomb'Christopher Columbus' at the Berlin State Opera. 

1932 Birth of Russian conductor Mark Ermler. 

1932 Birth of composer Aurel Stroe.

1933 Birth of Japanese composer Rieko Arima in Tokyo.

1934 Birth of Polish soprano Maria Bjeschu. 

1935 FP of Pizzetti's "Orseolo" Florence. 

1936 Death of soprano Eva Van Der Osten. 

1937 Birth of German baritone Carl-Heinz Stryczek in Nickelsdorf. 

1937 FP of Casella's "Il deserto tentato" mystery in 1 act, in Florence.

1941 FP of Benjamin Britten's first opera Paul Bunyan with text by Auden, at Columbia University, NYC.

1945 FP of S. Barber's I Hear an Army, Monks and Raisins, Nocturne, Star On This Shing Night, on CBS radio network. 

1946 FP of Douglas Moore's Symphony in A, in Paris.

1952 Birth of American composer Bunita Marcus.

1952 FP of Gaburo's "The Snow Queen" Lake Charles, LA.

1955 Death of Austrian composer Rudolf Sieczynski in Vienna. 

1957 Birth of American composer Hayes Biggs.

1960 FP of Foss' "Introduction and Goodbyes" NYC.

1963 Death of German-American composer Heinrich Gebhard.

1966 Death of Italian soprano Lella Gaio. 

1971 Death of Polish soprano Maria Moscisca. 

1973 FP of Susa's "Transformations" Cedar Village Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 

1977 FP of George Crumb's oratorio Star Child by the New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conducting.

1982 FP of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symphony No. 1. American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller conducting at Alice Tully Hall in NYC. 

1987 FP of John Williams' A Hymn to New England. Boston Pops conducted by Williams.

1990 FP of Henze's "Das verratene Meer" Berlin.

1991 FP of Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 3 Dedicated to Frances Richard of ASCAP. Members of the Empire Brass and the New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta conducting at Carnegie Hall, NYC.

1998 Death of Dutch composer Ton Bruynèl in Mailly, France.

2000 FP of Christopher Rouse's Rapture for orchestra, by the Pittsburgh Symphony, Mariss Jansons conducting.

2001 FP of Christopher Rouse's Raptureduxcello ensemble, by the Royal Northern College of Music Cellists in Manchester, England.

[christheodore-live]

Honoring Peace Heroes

This list of world peace heroes includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world’s attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.

Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman Woman’s Peace Party, president Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34–1999) – Pakistani political scientist, activist

Martti Ahtisaari (1937) – former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution

Stew Albert (1939–2006) – anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer

Widad Akrawi (1969) – Danish-Kurdish peace advocate, organizer

Suzanne Arms (1945) – anti-Vietnam war activist, draft counselor

Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) – French peace campaigner, coined the word “Pacifism”

Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) – Italian reporter, anti-war activist

Pat Arrowsmith (1930) – British author and peace campaigner

Joan Baez (1941) – prominent American anti-war protester, inspirational singer

Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) – American, a leader of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Ernesto Balducci (1922–1992) – Italian priest

Archibald Baxter (1881–1970) – New Zealand pacifist, socialist, and anti-war activist

Harry Belafonte (1927) – American anti-war protester, performer

Medea Benjamin (1952) – co-founder Code Pink, author, organizer

Meg Beresford (1937) – British activist, European Nuclear Disarmament movement

Daniel Berrigan (1921) – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester

Philip Berrigan (1923–2002) – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester

James Bevel (1936–2008) – prominent American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer

Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982) – Indian, Gandhian, teacher, author, organizer

Janet Bloomfield (1953–2007) – peace and disarmament campaigner, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Vera Brittain (1893–1970) – British writer, pacifist

Elihu Burritt (1810–1879) – American diplomat, social activist

Helen Caldicott (1938) – physician, anti-nuclear weapon, initiator

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) – American industrialist and founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Jimmy Carter (1924) – American negotiator and former US President, organizer, international conflict resolution

Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945) - Swiss engineer, founder of Service Civil International (SCI) or International Voluntary Service for Peace (IVSP)

Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) - American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist

Noam Chomsky - American linguist, philosopher, and activist

Ramsey Clark (1927) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist

William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) – American cleric, anti-war activist

James F. Colaianni (1922) – author, publisher, first anti-Napalm organizer

Judy Collins (1939) – inspirational American anti-war singer/songwriter, protester

Tom Cornell – American anti-war activist, initiated first anti-Vietnam War protest

Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) – American activist for Palestinian human rights[1][2]

David Cortright – American anti-nuclear weapon leader

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) – journalist, author, organizer, initiator

Frances Crowe (1919) – anti-war and anti-nuclear power, draft counselor

Rennie Davis (1941) – American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) – American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker

David Dellinger (1915–2004) – American pacifist, organizer, prominent anti-war leader

Lanza del Vasto (1901-1981) - Catholic philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist

Michael Denborough AM (1929-2014) - Australian medical researcher who founded the Nuclear Disarmament Party

Alma Dolens (1876–?) – Italian pacifist and suffragist

Phil Donahue - Former talk show host, former television host

Élie Ducommun (1833–1906) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Mel Duncan(1950) – founding Executive Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce

Shirin Ebadi (1947) – Iranian lawyer, human rights activist

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – Scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

Daniel Ellsberg (1931) – American anti-war whistleblower, protester

James Gareth Endicott (1898–1993) – initiator, organizer, protester

Amy Goodman - journalist, host of Democracy Now!

Jodie Evans (1954) – co-founder Code Pink, initiator, organizer, filmmaker

Jane Fonda (1937) – American anti-war protester, actress

Tom Fox (1951–2006) – American Quaker

Comfort Freeman – Liberian anti-war activist

Alfred Fried (1864–1921) – co-founder German peace movement, called for world peace organization

Arun Gandhi (1934) – Indian, organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas

Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) – Indian, writer, organizer, protester, lawyer, inspiration to movement leaders

Leymah Gbowee (1972) - organizer of women’s peace movement in Liberia, awarded 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Everett Gendler (1928) - Conservative rabbi, peace activist, writer

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – American anti-war protester, writer

Arthur Gish (1939–2010) – American public speaker

Danny Glover (1946) – American actor and anti-war activist

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency

Dick Gregory (1932) – American comedian, anti-war protester

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) – current Dalai Lama, peace advocate

Otto Hahn (1879–1968) – nuclear chemist, Nobel Laureate, pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate

Judith Hand (1940) – anti-war writer, academian

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) – Vietnamese monk

G. Simon Harak (1948) – American academian

Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish socialist, co-founder of Independent Labour Party and Labour Party

Václav Havel – Czech nonviolent writer, poet, and politician

Brian Haw – British activist, initiated and long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign

Abraham Joshua Heschel - (1907-1972) rabbi, professor at Jewish Theological Seminary, civil rights and peace activist

Sidney Hinkes (1925–2006) – pacifist, priest in the Church of England

Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – British welfare campaigner

Abbie Hoffman – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of Yippies

Margaret Holmes, AM, (1909–2009) – Australian activist during the Vietnam War, member Anglican Pacifist Fellowship

Julia Ward Howe – writer, advocate, organizer

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – anti-war and anti-conflict writer

Khawaja Zafar Iqbal – Pakistani

Wilhelm Jerusalem – pacifist, philosopher, progressive educationalist, worked at Vienna (Austria)

Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) – French anti-war activist, socialist leader

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) – Pakistani, founder of Pakistan, lawyer, organizer, inspiration to movement leaders

Pope Saint John Paul II – Polish Catholic Pope, inspiration, advocate

Helen John – first full-time member of the Greenham Common peace camp

Helen Keller – deafblind writer, speech “Strike Against The War” Carnegie Hall, New York 1916

Kathy Kelly (1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests. Member and organizer of international peace teams.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan- Pakistani, called “Frontier Gandhi” by the Indians

Steve Killelea – initiated Global Peace Index and Institute for Economics and Peace

Adam Kokesh (1982) – American activist, Iraq Veterans Against the War

Martin Luther King Jr. – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester, speaker, inspiration

Ron Kovic – American Vietnam war veteran, war protestor

Paul Krassner – American anti-Vietnam war organizer, writer, Yippie co-founder

Henri La Fontaine – initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

William Ladd (1778–1841) – early American activist, initiator, first president of the American Peace Society

Bernard Lafayette – American organizer, educator, initiator

Grigoris Lambrakis – Greek athlete, physician, politician, activist

George Lansbury

André Larivière – ecologist and anti-nuclear activist

Bryan Law – Australian non-violent activist.

John Lennon – British singer/songwriter, anti-war protestor

Sidney Lens – American anti-Vietnam war leader

Bertie Lewis (1920–2010) – RAF airman who went on to become a U.K. peace campaigner

Thomas Lewis (1940–2008) – American artist, anti-war activist with (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)

James Loney – peace worker, kidnap victim

Staughton Lynd – American anti-Vietnam war leader

Bradford Lyttle (1927) – prominent American pacifist, writer, presidential candidate, and organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action

Norman Mailer – American anti-war writer, war protestor

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) – South African statesman, leader in anti-apartheid movement and post-apartheid reconciliation, founder of The Elders, inspiration

Mairead Corrigan Maguire – Northern Ireland peace movement, Nobel Prize winner

Bob Marley – Jamaican, inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, inspiration

Eugene McCarthy – U.S. presidential candidate, ran on an anti-Vietnam war agenda

John McConnell (1915–2012) – founder Earth Day, and U.N peace proclamation

George McGovern – U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, anti-Vietnam war agenda

David McTaggart (1932–2001) – Canadian anti-nuclear testing activist, co-founder Greenpeace International

Rigoberta Menchú (1959) – Guatemalan indigenous rights, anti-war, co-founder Nobel Women’s Initiative

Chico Mendes (1944–1988) – Brazilian environmentalist and human rights advocate of peasants and indigenous peoples

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) – monk and poet, inspirational writer, philosopher

Barry Mitcalfe (1930–1986) – a leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War and the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement

A.J. Muste – American pacifist, organizer, anti-Vietnam War leader

Abie Nathan (1927–2008) – Israeli humanitarian, founded Voice of Peace radio,[3] met with all sides of a conflict

Paul Newman – American anti-war protestor, inspiration

Georg Friedrich Nicolai – German professor, famous or the book “The Biology of War”

Sari Nusseibeh – Palestinian activist

Phil Ochs – American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events

Yoko Ono – Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe

Laurence Overmire – poet, author, theorist

Olof Palme – Swedish prime minister, diplomat

Frédéric Passy (1822-1912) - French economist, peace activist and joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901)

Linus Pauling – American anti-nuclear testing advocate and leader

Concepcion Picciotto – anti-nuclear and anti-war protestor, White House Peace Vigil

Peace Pilgrim – walked the highways and streets of America promoting peace

Lindis Percy

Jeannette Rankin

Marcus Raskin

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Henry Richard (1812–1888) – English minister known as “the Apostle of Peace”, was secretary of the Peace Society for forty years (1848–84).

Romain Rolland (1866–1944) - French dramatist, novelist, essayist, anti-war activist

Oscar Romero (1917-1980) – Venerable Archbishop of San Salvador

Arundhati Roy (1961–) – Indian writer, social critic and peace activist

Jerry Rubin – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of the Yippies

Bertrand Russell – British anti-nuclear bomb activist, philosopher

Carl Sagan

Ed Sanders (1939) – American poet, organizer, singer, co-founder of anti-war band The Fugs

Mohamed Sahnoun (1931) - Algerian diplomat, peace activist, UN envoy to Somalia and to the Great Lakes region

Mark Satin – anti-war proponent, draft-resistance organizer, writer, philosopher

Jonathan Schell (1943–2014) – American writer and campaigner against nuclear weapons, antiwar activist

Sophie Scholl

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – German/French activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon testing whose speeches were published as Peace or Atomic War. Co-founder of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – anti-war protestor, inspirational singer/songwriter

Jeff Sharlet – anti-Vietnam war soldier, journalist

Gene Sharp – nonviolent writer and academian

Cindy Sheehan – American anti-Iraq and anti-Afghanistan war leader

Martin Sheen – anti-war and anti-nuclear bomb protestor, inspirational American actor

Nancy Shelley, OAM, Quaker who represented the Australian peace movement at the UN in 1982.

Percy Shelley – writer, poet, nonviolent philosopher and inspiration

Dick Sheppard

Toma Sik

Jeanmarie Simpson

Ramjee Singh – Indian activist, philosopher and Gandhian

Samantha Smith – young advocate of peace between Soviets and Americans

Benjamin Spock – anti-Vietnam war protestor, writer, inspiration

Olaf Stapledon

Cat Stevens

Bertha von Suttner – writer, organizer, Nobel’s inspiration for Nobel Peace Prize

Kathleen Tacchi-Morris – founder of Women for World Disarmament

Tank Man – Stood in front of tank during 1989 China protest

Eve Tetaz

Thomas (1947–2009) – initiated, long-time participant, White House peace vigil

Ellen Thomas – long-time participant, White House peace vigil

Henry David Thoreau – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders

Leo Tolstoy – Russian writer on nonviolence, inspiration to Gandhi, Bevel, and other movement leaders

Benjamin Franklin Trueblood – 19th century writer, editor, organizer, initiator

Barbara Grace Tucker – Australian born peace activist, long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign

Desmond Tutu – South African cleric, initiator, anti-apartheid, inspiration

Jo Vallentine

Mordechai Vanunu

Lanza del Vasto – Gandhian, anti-war, anti-nuclear

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Stellan Vinthagen (1964) Swedish anti-war and nonviolent resistance scholar-activist

Kurt Vonnegut – American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protestor

John Wallach

Alyn Ware (1962) – New Zealand peace educator and campaigner, Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament since 2002

Owen Wilkes – New Zealand peace researcher and activist

Jody Williams – American anti-landmine advocate and organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

S. Brian Willson – American veteran, peace activist and lawyer

Lawrence S. Wittner – peace historian, researcher, and movement activist

Walter Wolfgang (1923) – German-born British activist

Peter Yarrow (1938) – American singer/songwriter, anti-war activist

Adam Yauch – Musician, Buddhist, advocate for peace

John Howard Yoder

Neil Young – singer/songwriter, anti-war advocate, other causes

Edip Yuksel – Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Howard Zinn – historian, writer, peace advocate

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Capri, (1906).  

Soter Jaxa-Małachowski (Polish, 1867–1952)

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Soter Jaxa-Malachowski, Polish, (1867 - 1952)

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“Boats” by Soter Jaxa-Małachowski (Polish;1867-1952)

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The Bielsko-Biała Museum

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“Cracow market at night“ (1934) by Soter Jaxa-Małachowski (Polish;1867-1952)

oil on canvas, private collection

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