#hans hermann von katte

[gilsart]

scribbling

[cinnamon-meatmeat]

"Katte will follow me to the farthest corner of the globe, if I choose."

Journeys to Istanbul, Antalya, Cappadocia, Beijing, Boston, St Petersburg.

[acrossthewavesoftime]

My commiserations to both of them on their terrible taste in boyfriends.*

*Hans Willem, who was fighting rumours about his Boy Best Friend's alleged homosexuality (with him) all his life, would disagree with my phrasing here, but his first wife would definitively agree after the whole Willem-is-jealous-because-after-Hans's-wedding-he-is-no-longer-his-bestie's-priority-number-one jealousy debacle of mid-August 1679.

[friedrich-2]

In another life, they would’ve gotten into so many shenanigans.

[camdenhells]

küstrin material and all but damn katte... slay

[silly-katt-cxt]

i seriously did not think id ever post on this account but here, some old fratte art i made like last year-ish back when this trend was popular on tiktok :D

[fritz-on-a-blitz]

Happy birthday to The Asshole ™✨

They're out on a fancy date!

Couple Descending a Staircase, 1925 by J.C. Leyendecker

Original under the cut! Ps: the railing has been a pain in my ahh so little to no details :(

[johannessakura]

尝试绘画他们

我不会说英语，所以使用母语。Katte和Fritz很可爱，我尝试绘画他们。

[18th-century-mental-health]

Rare footage of Wilhelmine yelling at Katte

[sanssouci-hakunamatata]

Illustraitions by H.J. Ford, from The Book of Princes and Princesses by Leonora Blanche Lang, first published in 1908.

[unanchored-ship]

this is kinda old but while scrolling photos on me phone i came across this

kattes head looks dented in

[gilsart]

in Italy we call this “studio matto e disperatissimo”

[cinnamon-meatmeat]

[acrossthewavesoftime]

[Narrator voice] And it was not the Albanian national dish after all.

[friedrich-2]

Sometimes, I think about how awful it must've been to know that your father ordered your friend's (lovers) execution. Just the knowledge that you, trying to flee from your abusive father, turned into your friend getting killed.

I mean, Friedrich even begged his father to be executed in Kattes' place and pleaded with him so damn much, to no avail as we know. It's a real, rough tragedy.

[merry-kenobi]

Short clip from a German silent film from 1922/23 - Movie: Fredericus Rex