#eduard friedrich

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by your bedside

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Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879, Vienna)

Potrait of a young elegant lady, three-quarter length, in a red dress with an embroidered shawl, standing in a landscape

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Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879, German) ~ Portrait of a young elegant lady, three-quarter length, in a red dress with an embroidered shawl, standing in a landscape, 1824

[Source: Christie's]

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As announced in the previous post, here are the photos of the pamphlet of the film Danton (1921).

Front row, from left, Westermann (Eduard von Winterstein), Camille (Ossip Runitsch), Danton (Emil Jannings) and Hérault (Ferdinand von Alten)

From left, Fouquier-Tinville (Friedrich Kühne), Saint-Just (Robert Scholz) and Robespierre (Werner Krauss)

Babette (OC in the film played by Hilde Wörner and not related to Elisabeth Le Bas), Danton, Camille, and Hérault

And this is the cover (Camille, Danton, and Babette):

I found it on eBay about a year ago. I can't read Danish, but I got it because documents on this film are rare. (I used Google Translate to read the text, which was more about the historical Danton's life than about the film).

There are problems with historical accuracy (as I mentioned before), but I am fascinated by the dark romantic images in this film, influenced by German Expressionism.

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Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia and Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Eduard Adalbert Michael Hubertus Prinz of Prussia

German vintage postcard

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Some 1820s dresses (from top to bottom) -

1824 Young elegant lady by Eduard Friedrich Leybold (Christie's - Live Auction 2975 Lot 360). Fixed tears, edges, spots, and smudges w Pshop 3342X4205 @150 2.5Mj.

1826 Josefina Maximiliana Eugenia Napoleana, Queen of Sweden with her son by Frederic Westin (location ?). From tumblr.com/roehenstart 1280X1898 @72 587kj.

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Bavarian pilots Eduard Schleich and Friedrich Röth. Both earned Bavarias highest military award (Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden) which granted them nobility.

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Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann - The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus, 1873.

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After sending them all outside, he took with him the child’s father and mother and his own companions and entered the room where the child was.

He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” which means: “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”

And immediately the girl, a child of twelve, got up and began to walk around.

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Artwork: Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann (German, 1811–1889) The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus (1873)

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Göttinger Sieben

#Göttinger_Sieben. @tazgezwitscher erinnert in diesen Tagen an sieben freíheitliche Hochschullehrer in Göttingen, die vor 185 Jahren dem Hannoverschen König die Stirn boten. Sie begehrten auf. #Christiane_Möbus hat den "Göttinger Sieben" ein Denkmal gesetzt.

Die taz erinnert in diesen Tagen an sieben freíheitliche Hochschullehrer in Göttingen, die vor 185 Jahren dem Hannoverschen König die Stirn boten. Sieben Professoren der Uni Göttingen begehrten auf. Christiane Möbus hat den “Göttinger Sieben” ein Denkmal gesetzt. “Tritt man in Hannover zur City-Seite aus dem Bahnhof heraus, landet man auf dem Ernst-August-Platz. Dort steht im Zentrum, wenig…

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"Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are." 

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With people like Candace Owens spreading misinformation about medical experiments at Auschwitz, it is important to be literate in this aspect of Holocaust history.

TW below the cut for: medical experimentation and malpractice, forced sterilization, antisemitism, anti-roma and sinti racism, discussion of concentration camps and the Holocaust. I will not include any photos. My source for everything is this book, published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

There were more Nazi "doctors" at Auschwitz than I will be able to cover in this post. It is important to note that these "doctors" did not just perform experiments, but they also played a direct role in the genocide of the Jews at Auschwitz by participating in "selections." During these "selections," prisoners or prospective prisoners were chosen to be sent to the gas chambers. I say prospective prisoners because a selection usually took place at arrival upon the camp, with most children, the elderly, and anyone unfit for work, or for some people,just because, were sent immediately to the gas chambers without even being registered in the camp. This is a process that is unique to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Josef Mengele is by far the most famous SS "doctor" at Auschwitz. He was the head physician of the sector of Auschwitz II - Birkenau which held Roma and Sinti families, before the camp was "liquidated" which mean that every man, woman and child in it were sent to the gas chambers. Mengele performed experiments related to twins, people with dwarfism, and a disease called noma (don't look it up its gross).

Lorenc Andreas Menasche and his twin sister were experimented on by Josef Mengele. Menasche testified about undergoing experimentation with his sister:

"They also gave us injections all over our bodies. As a result of these injections, my sister fell ill. Her neck swelled up as a result of a severe infection. They sent her to the hospital and operated on her without anesthetic in primitive conditions"

Elzbieta Piekut-Warszawska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with Mengele's experiments, describes experiments on Jewish twins:

"Drops were also put into their eyes. I did not see the procedure itself, since they took the children into the next room. Some pairs of children received drops in both eyes, and others only in one. I was ordered to observed the reactions, and not to intervene in any way in case of any changes... The results of these practices were very painful for the victims. They suffered from severe swelling of the eyelids, a burning sensation, and intense watering of hte eyes"

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was also forced to assist Dr. Mengele. He describes being forced to perform autopsies on a pair of "small twins" who:

"... died [were killed] simultaneously... Their death makes it possible to carry out autopsies on them, intended to solve the mystery of reproduction."

Nyiszli says that Mengele was interested in twins with the aim of "increas[ing] the birth rate of the 'higher race'"

At the same time, two separate "doctors," Carl Clauberg and Horst Schumann, were performing sterilization experiments on Jewish prisoners in order to find an effective method of mass sterilization.

Clauberg's experiments involved introducing chemicals into the reproductive organs of Jewish women. Alina Białostocka, an Auschwitz prisoner who was forced to assist Clauberg testified that

"[the] procedure was carried out brutally, and often caused complications"

When it "worked," the procedure left women forcibly sterilized for life.

Horst Schumann's experiments involved the use of x-ray on male and female genitalia. According to Felicja Pleszowska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with experiments, Schumann's experiments were

"very painful and dangerous to life. There were frequent cases of men dying immediately after such procedures"

From the combined victims of these two men, only very few individuals survived.

Eduard Wirths, Friedrich Entress, Helmuth Vetter, Fritz Klein, Werner Rhode, Hans Wilhem Konig, Victor Capesius and Bruno Weber all tested pharmaceuticals on Auschwitz prisoners on behalf of companies like Bayer (which still exist and operate).

I cannot stress enough the mortality rate of all the medical experiments that took place in Auschwitz. I cannot stress enough the harm done to those who survived. I cannot stress enough the fact that the information I have provided here is just the tip of the iceberg, and that these experiments were VERY well documented BY THE NAZIS THEMSELVES.

This is horrifying. This is real. And we cannot let people insult the memory of these horrors by manipulating historical fact for selfish gain.

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The Ubiquitous Regency Shawl

Shawls, often with a paisley border were an integral part of Regency fashion. When one looks at portraits of women during the era, they often have a shawl draped over one shoulder or held in the crook of the elbow.

Throughout much of the 19th century, Kashmir shawls were at the forefront of elegant fashion in scarves and wraps. They were as luxuriously soft as they were warm.

Cashmere shawls go back to the 11th century when they were first made in India, in the Kingdom of Kasmir, and imported to the west by the East India Company. During the early 19th century they were being made in Paisley, Scotland – hence the name we know the pattern by today. Innovations of the hand loom, allowed for weavers to produce patterns in five colors instead of the traditional two and creating especially lovely patterns.

Dress • c. 1800 • Cotton plain weave muslin with silk embroidery (Likely imported from India for the western market) • Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Left: 1811 pelisse (coat) with a paisley shawl in two colors

Right: Dress • American • 1818 (no facts on the shawl, though if it's authentic, an example of a five-color paisley).

Eduard Friedrich Leybold (Austrian, 1798-1879) • Portrait of a Young Lady in a Red Dress with a Paisley Shawl • 1824

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Fehr Friedrich

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Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Eduard Adalbert Michael Hubertus of Prussia Prince Hubertus Karl Wilhelm of Prussia Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph of Prussia Princess Alexandrine Irene of Prussia

German vintage postcard

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Friedrich von Amerling - Der Maler Eduard Bendemann (1837)