#Josef Fischer

[mioritic]

Josef Fischer (1898–1985)

Two dancers from Csíkmenaság (RO: Armășeni), Transylvania, 1933

Helikon

[divulgatoriseriali]

Parigi-Roubaix: viaggio nell'inferno del nord

La Parigi-Roubaix è una gara in linea di ciclismo su strada che ogni anno viene disputata la seconda domenica d’aprile. Nota come la “regina delle classiche” per la sua importanza, la corsa di Pasqua, meglio nota come “Pascale” o l’inferno del Nord per le avversità a cui sono sottoposti i corridori. La prima edizione risale al 1896 ed è tutt’ora una delle più longeve classiche in attività.…

[musicdiaries]

VA - Erstes Wiener Krandaubel Opening: Donauwalterinterpretationen (2023)

[archduchessofnowhere]

“She is unfit for her position both as Empress and as wife”: Elisabeth and Dr. Seeburger

Left: Doctor Johann Seeburger, by Ludwig Angerer, c. 1860. Via the Royal Collection Trust. Right: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, by Ludwig Angerer, c. 1861. Via Wikimedia Commons.

I had this sitting on my drafts for months, yet I didn’t find any motivation to finish this post. That is, until the first teaser of Die Kaiserin season 2 dropped, featuring, among other things, a scene in which Elisabeth spits a doctor in the face. And while something as rude as this never happened, the young empress of Austria did have a troubled relationship with one doctor at the Habsburg court: Johann Seeburger. I don’t know if the doctor in the teaser is meant to be him, but given that he and Elisabeth ended up being borderline hostile towards each other, I wouldn’t be surprised if Seeburger was the inspiration (assuming the doctor is an actual character with lines and not a random physician that will get spit on the face for no reason). So without further ado, let’s look at what we know about Elisabeth and Seeburger’s relationship.

I couldn’t find information on Dr Johann Seeburger, only that he was born in 1800, and seems to have worked at court since at least the beginning of the reign of Franz Josef (probably earlier, since it was very difficult to access court). We don’t know what kind of relationship Elisabeth and Seeburger had when they met, as biographers don’t make any mention of it. He attended Elisabeth during her first pregnancy, and I think it’s safe to assume he also treated her during her second one. Seeburger wasn’t the only doctor consulted - Doctor Heinrich Fischer, the Wittelsbach’s personal physician, was also called for a second opinion. 

Aunt Luise [Elisabeth’s mother]’s Doctor Fischer, in whom I have a great deal of confidence, has arrived here... [He was] delighted by Sisi’s blooming appearance and finds her whole condition very satisfactory. He and Seeburger say that the great moment will come at the end of February, at least the first days of March... (Praschl-Bichler, 2008)

Elisabeth probably felt more comfortable with Fischer, who had been her doctor back in Bavaria, than with Seeburger, so it’s not odd they called him for a second opinion. 

It is not only until the Imperial family’s ill-fated Hungarian trip of 1857 that Sisi’s biographers mention Seeburger again - for in this trip, her first child tragically died.

The little archduchesses Sophie and Gisela arrived in Hungary on May 5 of 1857, a day after their parents, but they never joined them in the tour - the girls were to stay in Buda, where the Imperial couple could visit them during the short breaks of the packed tour schedule, which was meant to last two months. The visit started off well, but only a few days after their arrival, Gisela fell ill with fever.

Gisela’s fever was first attributed to teething, but the next day her sister Sophie also fell ill. Franz Josef and Sisi were meant to leave Buda and continue their journey through eastern Hungary, but the emperor postponed the journey for ten days as the girls continued to be sick. This did not mean that the parents were always next to their daughters, as historian Martina Winkelhofer notes, “the days that were now free were filled with further receptions and audiences. Only the evening festive events were cancelled.” (2022)

After three days Gisela got better, but Sophie showed no improvement. Dr Seeburger was among the physicians that were present attending the young archduchesses, but still Franz Josef called the pediatrician Josef-Michael Götz from Vienna. “The latter was not only the author of the manual Care and Treatment of Sick Children during the Early Phase of Life (1842), which is in the imperial court library, but had also studied the ‘course of the great epidemics (cholera, typhus, influenza) in children’.” (ibid, 2022)

Götz left a day after being summoned, but Baby Sophie only got worse. At this point the parents were feeling desperate: Franz Josef wrote to his mother Archduchess Sophie that the girl’s cries “tore his heart apart”, and added that “‘What Sisi and I are suffering, you can imagine!’” (Praschl-Bichler, 2008). Baby Sophie was diagnosed with typhus, and the pediatrician was recalled. After a hard night it seemed the child showed signs of being better, and it was believed she would recover. So on May 21, the Imperial couple was given the all-clear by the doctors to finally continue their tour.

Here is where things get a bit odd. Quoting Winkelhofer again (emphasis by me):

Elisabeth and Franz Joseph then set off from Buda to Jászberényi with a solemn entrance into the city. On the fourth day of the tour, however - as can be read in the travel protocol - there arrived “a telegraphic dispatch about the condition of Her Imperial Highness Archduchess Sophie from Buda, the contents of which distressed His Majesty to such an extent that Her Royal Highness’s departure was already scheduled for noon”. The telegram probably came from Sophie’s aja, and may have been sent without consulting the doctors because, as soon as the decision to leave was made, a report from the court physicians arrived: “His Majesty [had] decided to interrupt the sudden departure that had already begun”. (2022)

What happened? We can only speculate - whether the aya realized that Sophie hadn’t recovered before the doctors, whether the doctors’ report arrived before the girl’s health worsened. Whatever actually happened, those hours of delay were to result crucial: the next morning Sophie was in critical condition. The parents, who were in Debrecen at the moment, only arrived in Buda the following morning, where they found their child already at death’s door. That afternoon, on May 29, the two years-old Sophie died.

I went in detail on the last days of Baby Sophie because I think they’re crucial to understand the aftermath of her death. Having been away from her daughter during her final days was a great source of torment for Elisabeth, who blamed herself for leaving the child when they thought she was going to make it. Unsurprisingly, she also felt the physicians had failed in saving her daughter. According to her biographer Egon Conte Corti, the young empress tried to have Seeburger dismissed, but Archduchess Sophie’s intervention prevented it. (1936, p. 75)

I always feel that biographers focus too much on how grief made Elisabeth act “irrational” - to the point they ignore that she had a genuine reason to be upset at Dr Seeburger. Was she being fair? I don’t know, it was the 19th century, who knows if there was any doctor who could’ve cured Baby Sophie. I want to believe that all the doctors who treated her truly did as much as they could to help the girl. Corti claims that until the end Seeburger “was very crestfallen, but when pressed with questions he would only say that he had not given up hope.” (ibid, p. 73). But it was Seeburger and the medical staff who ultimately told Elisabeth and Franz Josef that it was safe to leave Sophie and continue the trip, and it was he who sent the report that prevented them from coming back earlier the 28th. Perhaps her animosity towards the doctor was unfair, but the way I see it, it was also understandable.

After this, the relationship between the empress and the court doctor became tense. Unlike her first two, Sisi’s third pregnancy and labor were very difficult. She wasn’t allowed to nurse Rudolf - which was the norm, but she had a large influx of milk that caused her a lot of pain. More concerning, she caught fever during the puerperium, but even though Laxemburg (where the Crown Prince had been born and the empress was recovering) was cooling, as it didn’t have heating, Seeburger didn’t order to move the empress to a different palace.  Winkelhofer notes that the physician’s attitude is surprising, since there was a real danger of puerperal fever. Archduchess Sophie had to write (emphasis by me):

telegram after telegram to convince the Emperor and Seeburger that it was only the unhealthy air in Laxenburg that was causing Sisi’s fever attacks and that a speedy transfer of Sisi to my warm parlours in Schönbrunn [Sophie was staying in Ischl], well protected in a closed carriage during the warm midday hours, would certainly be advisable. Seeburger did not want to go along with this idea at first, but after the second attack of fever he said he would bring Sisi to Schönbrunn in the middle of this month; if only the bad weather did not throw a spanner in the works! (Praschl-Bichler, 2008; also in Winkelhofer, 2022)

Only months after Rudolf’s birth, Austria was at war with Sardinia. The war took a great toll on Sisi’s mental health, and she was visibly stressed. The court society found their empress disappointing: they wanted an icon of hope, a figurehead who would visit hospitals and attend public events to lift the spirits of the Viennese. But Elisabeth was only a twenty-years old woman who hadn’t known peace for the past years, and courtiers could not forgive her this. Dr Seeburger was no exception. During a meeting, the physician told the Viennese police officer that:

She [Elisabeth] is unfit for her position both as Empress and as wife; though she has really nothing to do. Her relations with the children are most perfunctory, and though she grieves and weeps over the noble Emperor’s absence, she goes out riding for hours on end, ruining her health. An icy gulf separates her from the Archduchess Sophie, and the Mistress of the Household, the Countess Esterhazy, has absolutely no influence over her. (Corti, 1936, p. 81)

If you’ve read any biography of Sisi, you’ve probably read this quote. Authors who cite this statement usually focus on what Seeburger said: Elisabeth was acting “crazy” during the war, she didn’t have a good relationship with her kids, she and her mother-in-law couldn’t stand each other anymore. His word is usually taken at face value, even if the author citing him notes that Seeburger and Sisi didn’t like each other much. Martina Winkelhofer is the only historian I’ve read who takes into account the context in which the court doctor said this, and considers what it meant (emphasis by me):

These strong words show how unfairly the emperor’s closest entourage behaved towards Elisabeth. Even if this was the court physician’s personal opinion, someone so close to the imperial family should not have expressed himself in this way. Details about members of the household were taboo and observing their silence was a sign of the loyalty necessary for a career at court. Seeburger could have written about his disappointment in the form of a diary, as many did, without publicly defaming the imperial couple. By revealing such intimacies to the police minister, who had a widespread network of informants and contacts in all parts of society, he damaged the emperor. In addition, Seeburger’s complaints contained a good deal of misogyny, because all he did was deny Elisabeth the right to be a woman, wife and mother, even out loud. (2022)

Seeburger’s statement about Elisabeth wasn’t a neutral observation: he was badmouthing her after years of having a bad relationship with her, something many authors don’t seem to realize when citing him. As Winkelhofer also notes, although Archduchess Sophie was indeed not getting along with her daughter-in-law at this time, she did not write nor say a bad thing about Elisabeth, because attacking the empress was the same as attacking the monarchy. Even if you think Seeburger was right, I don’t think you should omit the context in which he said what he said.

When Elisabeth fell mysteriously ill in 1861, she wasn’t attended by Seeburger. Many doctors treated the empress the following two years, but it was eventually her trusted family doctor, Heinrich Fischer, who was able to cure Sisi: when he finally took charge of her treatment in 1862, he concluded that she had been misdiagnosed by her previous doctors; most importantly, he seems to have noticed that her ailments weren’t only physical, but also mental. He remained her personal physician until his death in 1874. (Winkelhofer, 2022)

Elisabeth and Seeburger had a complicated relationship, to say the least. We are still missing a lot of information, but for what I could gather, the hostility between the two isn’t really surprising. What’s surprising is how this entire context is missing in so many books about the empress, especially when Seeburger’s famous quote is brought up.

Sources:

Corti, Egon Caesar Conte (1936). Elizabeth, empress of Austria (translation by Catherine Alison Phillips)

Praschl-Bichler (2008). Unsere liebe Sisi: Die Wahrheit über Erzherzogin Sophie und Kaiserin Elisabeth

Winkelhofer, Martina (2022). Sissi. La vera storia. Il cammino della giovane imperatrice (translation by Federica Saccucci)

[darlingsfandom]

don't know why but here's a list of Cillian Murphys characters and whether they're more into tits or ass!

Tits!

• Davin McDery (Sunburn)

• Emmett ( A Quiet Place )

• Jackson Rippner ( Red Eye )

• Robert Fischer ( Inception )

Ass!

• Shivering Solider ( Dunkirk )

• Jim ( 28 Days Later )

• Tom Buckley ( Red Lights )

• Josef Gabcik ( Anthropoid )

• Matthew Joy ( Heart of the Sea )

•Emma ( Peacock )

• Jim ( The Delinquint Season )

BOTH!

• Thomas Shelby ( Peaky Blinders )

• Robert Oppenheimer ( Oppenheimer )

• Johnathan Crane/Scarecrow ( The Dark Knight Series)

• Raymond Leon ( In Time )

• Patricia "Kitten" Braden ( Breakfast on Pluto )

• Neil Lewis ( Watching The Detectives )

• Lenny Miller ( Anna )

• Pig ( Disco Pigs )

[hyunpic]

list of songs hyunjin has played on his lives/recommended:

note: im probably missing some & i couldn’t put links to all of them cause apparently tumblr has a link limit 🤨

lauv: julia, lonely eyes, invisible things, paris in the rain, never not, im so tired, the story never ends, i like me better

offonff: photograph, cigarette (ft. miso & tablo), dance, bath

beyoncé: crazy in love (remix)

billie eilish: i love you, &burn, idontwannabeyouanymore, ocean eyes, before i go, tv

honne: day1, la la la that’s how it goes

christina perri: a thousand years

shawn mendes: mercy, treat you better, in my blood

dvwn: phobia

dpr live: jam & butterfly

jehwi: dear moon

leehi: rose

bts: dna, waste it on me, make it right

colde: where love begins, string (ft. sunwoojunga), the museum, wa-r-r, your dog loves you (ft. crush), control me, a song nobody knows, im in love

got7: miracle, hard carry

justin bieber: lonely

josef salvat: call on me

taemin: criminal

night off: sleep

sam kim: make up (ft. crush), like a fool, sunny days summer nights

niki: lowkey

iu: the visitor, lullaby, knees, love poem, give you my heart, my sea

cha ni: starlight

sia: snowman

akmu: happening

sunwoojunga: run with me

the black skirts: everything

korea cracker: ocean (ft. hoyeon kim)

cosmic boy: can i love?

penomeco: no.5 (ft. crush)

yerin baek: blooming memories, limit

10cm: so…., however

day6: i’ll try, love me or leave me, when you love someone, you were beautiful, congratulations, zombie, days gone by, afraid

dean: d (half moon), instagram, what 2 do, bonnie & clyde

exo: first snow, the eve, love shot

sam fischer: this city

jukjae: do you want to walk with me?, lullaby

ph-1: nerdy love (ft. yerin baek), as i told you

baekhyun: love again, un village

amine: blackjack

young k: come as you are, guard you

flume: say it (ft. tove lo)

twice: dance the night away, fancy

ariana grande: thank u, next

hajin: we all lie

about: it has to be you

caroline says: winter is cold

h.e.r: u, wait for it

bol4: to my youth

monday kiz: winter is as i wished

paul kim: the road, additional

sweden laundry: the winter

jung seung hwan: in that winter

chungha: gotta go

zion.t: no make up, snow

airman: gloomy star, i’ll be your spring (ft. j_ust)

motte: dont run away

seventeen: a-teen, super

khalid: location

lukas graham: 7 years

imagine dragons: believer

bo kyung kim: dont think you are alone

jung ilhoon: spoiler (ft. babylon)

davichi: falling in love, 이 사랑

coldplay: everglow, viva la vida

lyn: my destiny

jus2: focus on me, long black, senses (jpn version)

crush: beautiful, you and i

ed sheeran: lego house, perfect, photograph, beautiful people

croosh: why

20 years of age: x

tori kelly: paper hearts

seulgi: always

luna: do you love me? (ft. george)

wisue: someone’s shining

epik high: eternal sunshine

jp saxe: if the world was ending

seori: fairy tale

bruno mars: marry you

the weeknd: earned it, die for you

jung seunghwan: its raining, an ordinary day, dear

sam tinnesz: play with fire

post malone: motley crew

jihyo: stardust love song

kim feel: your voice

sung sikyung: solar system, heejae

younha: stardust

wonpil: a journey

taeyeon: invu, some nights, toddler, drawing our moments

nct dream: boom

ha hyunsang: 3108

huhgak: memory of your scent

se so neon: nan chun, a long dream, midnight train, stranger

umi: remember me

tvxq!: mirotic

johnny balik: honey

red velvet: psycho

new jeans: hype boy

christian kuria: losing you

cigarettes after sex: k. , each time you fall in love, sunsetz, apocalypse

dpr ian: nerves, no blueberries, 1 shot

samm henshaw: broke

woodz: drowning

kelly clarkson: underneath the tree

kimmuseum: to you who cant sleep

taylor swift: betty

lana del rey: young and beautiful

harry styles: watermelon sugar, she

pink sweat$: honesty

masego: tadow

olivia rodrigo: vampire

troye sivan: youth, for him

kai: mmmh

2pm: my house

oasis: wonderwall, hey now

mac miller: that’s on me, everybody

nothing but thieves: amsterdam

bren joy: sweet

back number: i love you

mac ayres: next to you, roses

daniel caesar: blessed, ocho rios, get you (ft. kali uchis), take me away (ft. syd), do you like me?, disillusioned

green day: dilemma

puma blue: already falling

bruno major: nothing, easily, places we won’t walk, the most beautiful thing, old soul

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)

[cillianslvt]

Requests are open!!! (Updated)

Now the rules are:

Who I will write for:

Jonathan Crane

Neil Lewis

Thomas Shelby

Robert Fischer

Jackson Rippner

Shivering Solider

Tom Buckley

Lenny Miller

Kitten Braden

William Killick

Jim (The Delinquent Season)

Josef Gabcik

Raymond Leon

Emmitt (A Quiet Place: Part 2)

Who I won’t write for:

Cillian Murphy

Robert Oppenheimer

Characters that I haven’t seen yet. The list will change cause i’m binge watching Cillian’s movies lol.

What I will write:

fluff

angst

smut

Any gender reader

basically anything

Remember this is my first time writing so please be nice lol.

[saax2]

Sirene

Alta marea, 1930 ca. | ph., Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002, Mexico)

Naked on Beach, 1930 | ph., Gerhard Riebicke (1878-1957, Germany)

Tritone e Nereide, 1895 (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Firenze) | Max Klinger (1857-1920, Germany)

Le Sirene, 1870-1910 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) | John Macallan Swan (1846-1910, England)

Swimsuits early 19th century

A nude on the beach | Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940, Germany)

Girls on the beach, Båstad | Paul Fischer (1860-1934, Denmark)

Sulla spiaggia (On the beach), 1905 | Francesco Gioli (1846-1922, Italia)

Bagnanti sulla spiaggia (bathers on the beach), Isabella Far, 1934 | Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978, Italia)

Lisa and Mia Fonssagrives, Long Island Beach, 1946 ca. | ph., Fernand Fonssagrives (1910-2003, France)

The Siren, 1904 | Louis Loeb (1866-1909, USA)

A mermaid, 1900 | John William Waterhouse (1849-1917, UK)

A fantasy of the deep | Arthur Hopkins (1848-1930, England)

Donna del mare (Woman of the sea) | Plinio Nomellini (1866-1943, Italia)

Sirene d'acqua (Water mermaids), 1920 | Josef Wawra (1893-1935, Austria)

Summer on the beach | Paul Fischer (1860-1934, Denmark)

[mioritic]

"Segnung einer Milchkuh (sfeștanie) durch einen orthodoxen Popen" / "Blessing of a dairy cow by an orthodox priest", Romania, photographed by Josef or Emil Fischer

Konrad G. Klein + Christian Lindhorst, Jenseits des Verschwindens. Aus dem fotografischen Nachlass der Gebrüder Fischer, Hermannstadt/Sibiu (Sibiu/Bonn: Schiller Verlag, 2012)

[fettesans]

While I am aware of the fact that the funding you receive within the system you inhabit must have made you forgetful of what art really is about, I still want to remind you that (fortunately for precarious writers like myself), you are not Literature. Your money is not Literature. S. Fischer is not Literature. Germany is not Literature. And we, the writers, will remember.

Lana Bastašić in response to the cancellation of her upcoming residency and reading at Literaturfest Salzburg and Literaturhaus NÖ by Josef Kirchner and Anna Weidenholzer, January 30, 2024.

[vestibulodynia]

This poll is based on the definitive ranking of all the characters in the Cillian Murphy Cinematic Universe by @yrli8 and me. Warning: LONG

[mybeingthere]

Heimrad Prem (1934 – 1978) was a German painter born in Roding, Oberpfalz. From 1949–1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf, then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich until 1956. 

While studying painting with Ernst Schumacher at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, he formed Gruppe SPUR with Lothar Fischer, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer. After meeting Asger Jorn, SPUR joined the Situationist International.

In 1960 he won a scholarship of the Kulturpreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Cologne. From 1960–1962 he co-edited the magazine SPUR. In 1961 he visited Oerkelljunga, Sweden with Sturm, Zimmer and Dieter Kunzelmann staying with Jørgen Nash. In 1962 the SPUR group was expelled from the Situationist International, but they continued to work with Nash and others. In 1963 he worked on the SPUR collaborative works: "Canale Grande Crescente" for the exhibition "Visione e Colore" in the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, the SPUR-Bau joint contribution to the exhibition "Nouveaux Espaces", Biennale Paris, and the "SPUR room" in the country house of Willi Bleicher with Munich.

His first solo exhibition in the Galerie van de Loo, Munich was also in 1963. In 1965 the group SPUR fused with Wir to form the group Geflecht (Network). After a short stay in South Sweden, Prem organised the organization of "white celebration" near Munich and began to paint under the influence of drugs.

After his first suicide attempt in 1971 he traveled in Italy, Turkey and Iran. In 1975 he became a joint founder of the artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse. He became a lecturer at the winter academy in the Schloss Kißlegg. In 1976 he had a special exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich. The following year he exhibited in Copenhagen.

Following this, he continued to exhibit work mainly in Germany.Heimrad Prem committed suicide in 1978 in Munich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimrad_Prem

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Oz (1950-2014); civil name Walter Josef Fischer) was considered the "grandfather of the sprayer scene" in Hamburg. His works are omnipresent in the Hamburg city area, especially in the form of smileys, spirals and tags. He has left his mark more than 120,000 times in Hamburg. He was sentenced several times for his graffiti and served a total of more than eight years in prison for it. I've been inspired to explore graffiti in the cityscape after viewing the exhibition @einestadtwirdbunt at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte recently. Again, I highly recommend the exhibition, which traces the history of graffiti in Hamburg from 1980 to 1999. Also check out @city_of_oz.hamburg for further oz impressions and a great collaborative map documenting the locations of his work. #ozhamburg #ripoz #cityofoz #einestadtwirdbunt #eswb @histmuseenhh (at Billstedt, Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl3V2m6sQCJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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TAG SPOTLIGHT #4 – WERKAUSZUG (OZ)

‘WERKAUSZUG’ (excerpt of works) sums up the variety of the oeuvre of Walter Josef ‘OZ’ Fischer in Hamburg and shows also a broad selection of lesser known signs, drawings and letter combinations in the streets.

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Old Vienna

Anno 1907

Hotel Kranz heute Hotel Ambassador

Hotel Krantz, heute Hotel Ambassador.

VORGÄNGERBAUTEN

Auf diesem Grundstück standen ursprünglich drei Gebäude. Während Haus A vom Neuen Markt bis in die Kärntner Straße reichte (Hauptfront am Neuen Markt), lagen die Häuser B (zwischen Haus A und Stadt 1053 [ Kärntner Straße 20 ]) und C (zwischen Haus A und Stadt 1044 [ Kärntner Straße 24 ]) in der Kärntner Straße.

Haus A "Zur Mehlgrube"

Die Geschichte dieses Hauses lässt sich bis in die Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts zurückverfolgen. Damals trug es den Namen "Zu den drei Köpfen" (siehe auch Bei den drei Köpfen). Ab 1453 gehörte es der Stadt, die es neu errichtete und bis gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts als Mehldepot und Metzenleihanstalt (Metzenleihamt) nutzte. Dadurch erhielt es den Namen "Zur Mehlgrube"

1698 wurde es abgebrochen und durch einen Neubau ersetzt, der ebenfalls "Mehlgrube" genannt wurde und dem möglicherweise ein Entwurf von Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach zugrunde lag (Baumeister waren Georg Powanger und Christian Oedtl). Darin befand sich das Gasthaus "Zur Mehlgrube". Hier fanden exklusive Bälle für den Adel (Ahnenbälle), aber auch zahlreiche Kinder- und Maskenbälle sowie Musikfeste statt. Später verkehrte in diesem Lokal das Bürgertum, außerdem wurden hier die "Liebhaberkonzerte" abgehalten, bei denen unter anderen auch Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Johann Nepomuk Hummel auftraten. Danach wurde es als Casino genutzt und 1866 zu einem Hotel (Hotel Munsch) umgewandelt (ausführlichere Beschreibung dieses Hauses im Artikel Mehlgrube).

Haus B "Zum Glücksrad"

Die erste urkundliche Nennung dieses Hauses stammt aus dem Jahr 1355. Im Jahr 1413 wird zum ersten Mal der Schildname "Zum Glücksrad" genannt. Die Gemeinde erwarb das Haus, das mit einer Weinschankgerechtigkeit ausgestattet war, im Jahr 1696. Es blieb bis zum Abbruch, der zwischen 1850 und 1858 erfolgt sein muss, in deren Besitz. Danach wurde das Grundstück in das Haus A miteinbezogen.

Haus C

Dieses Gebäude wird nur in den Jahren 1453 und 1454 urkundlich genannt. Danach muss es wohl im Mehlkasten (Haus A) aufgegangen sein.

Heutiges Haus

Das heutige Haus wurde 1897/1898 nach Plänen von Franz Kupka und Gustav Orglmeister im Stil italienischer Renaissance erbaut und entstand auf wesentlich verringerter Grundfläche. Die eleganten Räume des Erdgeschoßes auf Seite der Kärntner Straße wurden als Restaurant genutzt. Eine besondere Sehenswürdigkeit bildete der Majolikasaal im Souterrain, in dem die Wände und die auf Pfeilern ruhenden Kreuzgewölbe zur Gänze mit gemalten und farbigen Majolikaplatten verkleidet waren. Die Baukosten wurden mit 1,2 Millionen Kronen angegeben.

Mit Kaufvertrag vom 10. November 1919 wurde das Hotel, das vorher Josef Krantz gehörte, von der "Hotel Krantz AG" erworben. In den Jahren 1921 und 1922 wurde es vollständig renoviert und mit dem damals modernsten Komfort (interurbane Telefone auf allen Zimmern, Bade- und Toilettezimmer, elektrische Uhren und dergleichen) ausgestattet. Bis zur teilweisen Zerstörung während des Zweiten Weltkriegs hatte das Hotel 105 Zimmer mit 150 Betten. Auch ein Konzertcafé und ein Volkskeller gehörten zum Hotel. An der linken Seitenfläche des Portalvorbaus befanden sich eine elektrisch betriebene Weltzeituhr und darunter ein Wetterkasten (beides wurde im Krieg zerstört und schließlich entfernt).

Zu den Gästen zählten König Albert von Belgien, Königin Elisabeth und König Carol von Rumänien, Carola, Königin-Witwe von Sachsen, König Ferdinand von Bulgarien, Prinzregent Luitpold von Bayern und US-Präsident Theodore Roosevelt, der in Wien mit Kaiser Franz Joseph I. zusammentraf.

Am 12. März 1945 erlitt das Hotel zwei schwere Bombentreffer (wahrscheinlich von 500-Kilogramm-Bomben). Dadurch wurde fast die Hälfte des Baus, vor allem aber der Mitteltrakt bis zum ersten Stockwerk, zerstört. Nach dem Krieg wurde das Haus als Hotel Ambassador neu eröffnet. Bereits im August 1947 standen zwei Drittel der Zimmer wieder in Verwendung. Auch nach 1945 wurden hier wieder Gäste untergebracht, die für Österreich von staatlichem oder wirtschaftlichem Interesse waren. Besonderes Aufsehen erregte der Besuch des Kaisers von Äthiopien, Haile Sellasie, der mit Frau und Tochter hier wohnte

2. 1759-1760, Der Mehlmarkt in Wien, Durchblick gegen Nordosten, rechts die ehemalige 'Mehlgrube', später Hotel Munsch. Gemälde von Canaletto. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie

Heute Hotel Abassador