#arthur thiele

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Dutch vintage postcard, illustrated by Arthur Thiele

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I have just discovered the German artist Arthur Thiele (1860-1936). He created many postcard designs, and a lot of his work has a comic or sentimental turn. I'm really enjoying his First World War postcards.

“Wir Barbaren, Heimkehr vom Felde” (We Barbarians, Homecoming from the Field), postmarked 1917.

“Auf Urlaub” (On Leave), postmarked 8 July 1916.

Submarine "U 9" in battle with the English cruisers Hogue, Abukir, and Cressy, 1915.

Im Nachtlager: machine translated as "In the night camp." A really classic scene of soldiers in fatigue caps bedding down in straw that could be from the Napoleonic era. All images from Thiele's Wikimedia Commons gallery.

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Arthur Thiele, card

Found in Oldpostcards.

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JOMP Challenge | March 30 | Read in March

32. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - 5/5

33. Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow - 4/5

34. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 5/5

35. Unterm Rad by Hermann Hesse - 4.75/5

36. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/5

37. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/5

38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/5

39. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4.5/5

40. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4.5/5

41. Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum - 5/5

42. William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher - 5/5

Dnf this month

Come back stronger by Sophia Thiel

Emma by Jane Austen

Pageboy by Elliot Page

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Arthur Thiele (1841-1919), oil on canvas

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Arthur Thiele

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Hi ! May I invade your askbox with book relative stuffs ?

I saw your posts about your last reads and that gave my inspiration for my (always increasing) list of futur readings !

I love George Sand but I had only read her "rural" books, so I will give a try to "Gabriel".

I also looove classics, but mostly french an british ones, 18 or 19th century. What would you advise me if I want broaden my horizon and dive in german classics ?

About Amélie Nothomd, my favorite one is still her first (maybe because it's the first I read ?) : Hygiène de l'assassin. But her autobiographic novels are also great : Stupeur et tremblements and Metaphysique des tubes are my favorites.

Ok, I stop here ^^ Have a nice day !

Omg yay thank you, I love that you sent this ask!!!! 💜😍

Gabriel was actually the first book I read by her, and I was absolutely blown away, so I highly recommend it! And feel free to recommend your faves to me as well, I'd love to get more into her works :)

Regarding German literature... omg where to start lol. I gotta say that I kind of "specialize" in late 19th/early 20th century German literature, so that's where most of my recs are from, hope that's still fine :)

(I'm putting this behind a break because I think I've spammed people's dashes enough with book talk, sorry about that)

I think you posted something about enjoying Zola a while back (sadly haven't personally gotten around to reading one of his novels yet), but based on that I'd definitely point you into the direction of German naturalism as well, they were all very inspired by Zola:

Bahnwärter Thiel - Gerhart Hauptmann (novella, beautiful way of interweaving nature and psychology)

Papa Hamlet - Arno Holz & Johannes Schlaf (novella, sometimes credited with coming up with the so-called Sekundenstil)

Die Weber - Gerhart Hauptmann (play, very anti-capitalist, as most of my favorite books probably are, but this one's especially got a good flavor of revolution as well)

Theeeen someone whose works I really enjoy as well is Arthur Schnitzler, he's one of the main authors of the Wiener Moderne or the Vienna Modernist Movement I guess would be a translation, and his works are very focused on psychology and sexuality, which I always find interesting.

I especially like Lieutenant Gustl (often credited with establishing the stream of consciousness style in German literature!) and Traumnovelle.

And so that this doesn't get even longer I'll just add a last recommendation maybe, this time a bit more modern: Bertolt Brecht. He was an amazing playwright, developed his own style of theater with the goal of inviting the audience to start thinking about a in his opinion very necessary revolution. I especially love Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder and Der gute Mensch von Sezuan.

I hope this wasn't too all over the place and if you (or anyone reading this for that matter!!!) want any more specific recommendations (like novels, plays, poems etc; or like... idk, specific periods or movements etc) fell free to hit me up anytime, I love talking about this!!!

omg omg yes!!! Métaphysique des tubes was actually the first one I read by her and I loved it! Definitely going to check out the others you mentioned as well! 😍

And thank you again soooo much, this is fun!!!

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A4 gouache painting, based on a painting I've found on Pinterest (twas probably a work of Arthur Thiele)

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Head Of A Stag - Arthur Thiele

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German vintage postcard, illustrated by Arthur Thiele

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Another postcard with chimpanzees

Monkey dressed up, ca. 1908

Don't tell the Barenaked Ladies, but we have a whole series of monkey postcards, including this chimpanzee! The "Another Postcard" song from their 2003 Everything to Everyone album (in which the singer anonymously receives far too many of this sort of thing) was the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw them. Most of these cards haven't been addressed or used, but their German artist, Arthur Thiele (1860-1936) knew a thing or two about funny animals. -- Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts

To celebrate the launch of our latest digital collection, we'll be featuring mini-posts of staff faves.

Browse the full collection: John Monroe collection of artist-signed postcards

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"Bitcoin Halving: The Road to $500,000 - Expert Predictions and Market Analysis"

The material is published solely for informational purposes and is not an investment recommendation. ForkLog is not responsible for readers' investment decisions. After the upcoming halving, Bitcoin will become scarcer than gold and real estate, which implies the cryptocurrency reaching a price of around $500,000, according to popular blogger PlanB. Based on his Stock-to-Flow model, the expert suggested that the digital asset's market capitalization may not surpass that of gold, which is over $10 trillion. However, approaching this mark and the emission of 20 million coins will lead to the stated price, PlanB calculated. He did not specify the timeline for reaching this price. Additionally, the expert noted the rise in the 200-week moving average (200WMA). In late January, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes suggested that Bitcoin could drop below $35,000 due to various factors such as Fed policy, military conflicts in the Middle East, and the U.S. presidential elections. Various analysts have different predictions for Bitcoin's price movements. For example, analyst Ali speculated a drop to $32,700 based on previous cryptocurrency cycles, while venture firm Placeholder partner Chris Burniske suggested a range of $30,000-$36,000 with a bottom at $20,000. Founder of MN Trading Consultancy Michaël van de Poppe expects Bitcoin to move towards $48,000 before the halving and reach a new high in the second half of 2024. Crypto analyst CryptoHamster identified a bullish pennant formation on the Bitcoin chart and predicted a potential rise to $45,500 in the near term. According to a survey conducted by PlanB in August 2023, nearly 60% of participants believe in the start of a bull market after the halving. In January, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci forecasted Bitcoin to reach $170,000 by 2025. Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel is confident in the cryptocurrency reaching its peak in Q3-Q4 2024 but expects a pullback to $40,000-$50,000 before rising to a new ATH of $120,000. Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee has even bolder predictions: $150,000 by the end of 2024 and $500,000 in the next five years. Read the full article

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A week before Thanksgiving, ironically, Governor Hochul chose to veto a bill unanimously passed by the New York State Legislature to grant the Montaukett Indian Nation recognition of its existence. It was not asking for land, or gambling rights; it was asking for a long-overdue correction of the immoral 1910 decision made by Judge Abel Blackmar in favor of a white family, the Bensons, who were attempting a takeover of a huge swath of land at the end of Long Island from the Montaukett Nation, in the process forcing them into a diaspora. 

It was the fifth time that this legislation came up to Hochul’s desk, and the fifth time it was vetoed. The argument espoused by Gov. Andrew Cuomo before her and Houchul is that the tribe had to have an unbroken history of existence, the requisite for state recognition.

The editors of one of our local papers, 27East.com, wrote a succinct and chilling op-ed on Hochul’s decision, saying that “… in 1910, and in an appeal two years later, the state decided that the Montaukett Nation had “disintegrated” into a mix of “shiftless” men and women who were ’impaired by miscegenation, particularly with the Negro race.’ They were no longer Indians, you see, because they had now become part of a ’civilized community.’ "

They went on: "That disgusting paragraph above — hard to write, hard to read, saturated with poisonous racism and carrying strong whiffs of eugenics, the discredited pseudoscience that drove policies regarding Native Americans in the early 1900s — is standing law in New York State. And Governor Kathy Hochul, with her signature, endorsed it with her veto, even though a judge nearly 50 years ago described the Benson decision as being of ’questionable propriety.’ 

So here we are, left with a lineage of racism that Governor Hochul has chosen to stick to by her veto. 

The nefarious ruling came from Judge Abel Blackmar after a long land dispute involving white families and the Montaukett. Justice Joseph Burr added the appalling ’miscegenation’ language in the 1912 appeal. The case gave 4,200 acres of tribal lands to the Long Island Rail Road and the heirs of Arthur W. Benson, who went on to make a fortune. It’s a decision that should make state officials hide their faces — ’one of the most racist decisions’ in New York history, as State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele aptly described it.

Today, we know better. We know that race is a social construct, and that the treatment of Native American tribes, especially at key moments in our nation’s development, was rooted in greed, untapped power and prejudice. It is a shameful legacy we are, and should be, actively working to repair.

State recognition — which, the latest legislation noted, the Montaukett Nation had at one point — is, ironically, mostly a ceremonial gesture toward reparation of this damage. There isn’t much benefit to it for the 1,500 or so Montaukett alive in 2023. It won’t overturn that ruling and return land to them, nor provide much in the way of assistance. It won’t automatically grant any gaming rights — though, of course, those rights are the key strategy that America has deemed appropriate to try to repay debts to Indigenous people and to provide a financial engine beyond federal grants.

So even a gesture is too dangerous for Hochul to support, despite the fact that her fellow legislators from both parties are united in support of righting this wrong. Instead, the last word goes to the pre-Depression era judges who denied the Montaukett their very existence, drowning them in a putrid stew of racism.

Hochul could have had the last word instead, with plenty of political cover. She could have put to rest a tragic and painful chapter of New York State’s history, and given the Montaukett Nation its proper respect.

’An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it,’ Thiele said of the veto. ’Instead of rejecting the noxious rationale of Benson, [Hochul’s] veto affirmed it. I am ashamed of our state government.’

The State Legislature has one last chance to fix this, by going back into session before the term ends on December 31 and overriding the veto, something that should be easy to do considering the unanimous support the legislation received. But that’s not likely to happen.

Across the generations, the noxious words of a pair of forgettable judges echo still. It would have been so easy to drown them out. Instead, Governor Kathy Hochul has underscored them — to our state’s enduring shame."

First NY State Assemblyman Fred Thiele has been patiently and persistently working on a correction of this injustice for much of his time in office, and it’s time that we, the people, speak up loudly for this wrong to be righted.