#palaste

[wgm-beautiful-world]

LINDERHOF PALACE

[scavengedluxury]

Statue of Marx and Engels (Ludwig Engelhardt, 1986) in front of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin, 1990. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[vintagepromotions]

Poster for an Artists' Ball at the Cherubin Palace, Munich, featuring a couple in costume (1925).

[berg-gry]

hab gerade festgestellt, dass die Namen von den Alpina Wandfarben kind of als Generator für Spatort-Titel durchgehen...

Held des Waldes?? Dichter der Erde?

[postcard-from-the-past]

Advertisement of the Bier-Palast venue in Hamburg, Germany

German vintage postcard

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

Berlin – Hauptstadt der DDR Palast der Republik Haupttreppe Берлин - столица ГДР Дворец Республики Парадная лестница Berlin - Capital of the GDR Palace of the Republic Grand staircase. Reichenbach (Vogtl): BILD UND HEIMAT REICHENBACH (VOGTL) (V 11 50 A 1/B 164/77 164/77 01 15 00 531)

Foto: Mohr, Berlin

1977

[teathattast]

You freed my heart and

Embrace my soul

No one's ever done so

Without your presence, without your hope

The right places feel so wrong

[in-liebe-der-boden]

Dank dir wird jede noch so kleine Wohnung zum Palast.

Zate - Du 4 (via @in-liebe-der-boden)

[mypepemateossus]

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

Stats Part 3

Now that Round 3 is over, we're down to 32 (well, 33) remaining artworks which feels about time to check in on how our statistics are doing!

And if you're not interested in statistics, I (Mod Salix) wanted to talk about the polls. You may have noticed that I've been trying to keep to 4 polls a day, which would mean that Round 4 is only going to be 4 days, and Round 5 would post everything in two days. Starting in Round 6, we'll probably re-institute week long polls. Hopefully none of us will lose track of what day to post the next round!

We have 20 artworks by male artists, 10 by female artists, and 4 by groups or unknowable entities! And of those, one person is Black, two are Aboriginal (one of whom is Mestizo and Kichwa, the other of whom is Aboriginal Australian), one is Asian-American (and two are Chinese living in China as opposed to living somewhere they're a minority), and one is Indian-British. And also three are left from gay men about the AIDS crisis, in addition to the AIDS memorial quilt, and one lesbian comic.

There are six American artists (including the Asian-American mentioned above), and three Chinese artists (including the Asian-American mentioned above), as well as three Russians (including Ilya Repin, who was born in the future Ukraine and lived near St. Petersburg), technically two different pieces by the same Dutch artist (hi van Gogh), and one each from Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador, Colombia, Canada, Italy, Northern Ireland, Poland, Australia, Finland, Germany, France, and Britain. And one artist I have listed as Denmark/Germany/France, because August Friedrich Schenck was born in a place that was Denmark at the time, Germany now, and worked mostly in France.

Of the pieces with known locations, eight are in the United States (four specifically in New York), two each in Australia and Russia, and one each in Argentina, Finland, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and one in a private collection.

There are two archaic pieces of art, Judith is our last standing piece from anything between archaic and 1843, 8 pieces of art from the 1800s, although five are from 1878 to 1896, one from 1903, two from the 70s or 80s, 5 from the 90s, four from the 00s, four from the span of 2014 to 2016, and three from the last two years. And two unknown dates and the AIDS memorial quilt which is still being added to.

There are 15 paintings, 7 installation arts, one comic, one photograph, one cave art, one sketch, one tattoo, and one fiber art slash installation. And the most common subject of the art are five queer related art pieces, although I have four each I summed up as either horror or grief/anguish.

And, lastly, someone sent in an ask in like Round 1 asking about statistics regarding whether being in first or second place in the poll biased anything. I'm not actually a statistician, so I can't answer that question, but I did compile the numbers of how many first-positioned vs second-positioned arts won! Surprisingly, Round 1 had 64 firsts to 63 seconds (and one tie), Round 2 had 29 to 35, and Round 3 had 15 to 17. Technically speaking that's not a large enough sample size to determine bias but it's... interesting?.

I was going to make a scatterplot featuring the number of votes in each poll to track engagement, but I haven't actually figured out how to do one in Google Sheets yet so maybe at the end of the bracket.

[chrisjohndewitt]

Berlin Lustgarten 1985. 

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Albrechtsberg Palace - GERMANY

[arlengrossman]

Disappearing Ballots

[vintagepromotions]

Poster for an Artists’ Ball at the Cherubin Palace featuring a pair of masked dancers (1925).

[scavengedluxury]

East Berlin, the Palace of the Republic under construction with the TV Tower behind, 1975. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Palast Hotel in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

German vintage postcard