#paul hermann wagner

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Forest Nymph (detail), 1870, Paul Hermann Wagner (1852-1937)

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Waldnymphe, Paul Hermann Wagner 1870. detail 

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‘Forest Nymph’ (detail) by Paul Hermann Wagner, c. 1870.

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Forest Nymph (1870), (detail), by Paul Hermann Wagner (1852-1937), oil on canvas, 86.4 × 110.5 cm, Private Collection, Texas

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Paul Hermann Wagner - Nymphe des forêts (1870)

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Woodland nymph (Paul Hermann Wagner)

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Forest Nymph by Paul Hermann Wagner

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Paul Hermann Wagner (1852-1937) - Waldnymphe

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creatures in art: fairies

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Forest Nymph 1870

Paul Hermann Wagner

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Paul Hermann Wagner, Waldnymphe

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"ZU NEUEN TATEN, TEURER HELDE" Götterdämmerung - R. WAGNER Here some Siegfrieds and Brünnhildes.

Peter Cornelius as Siegfried; Copenhagen, 1905

Charles Dalmores as Siegfried; Brussels, 1902

Ejnar Forchhammer as Siegfried; ?, ?

Paul Franz as Siegfried; Paris, 1925

Hans Grahl as Siegfried; Hamburg, 1934

Alois Hadwiger as Siegfried; Coburg-Gotha, 1907

Ottfried Hagen as Siegfried; Munich, 1908

Ernst Kraus as Siegfried; Berlin, ca. 1907

Gorrhelf Pistor as Siegfried; Bayreuth, 1931

Julius Pölzer as Siegfried; Munich, 1932

Erik Schmedes as Siegfried; Vienna, ca. 1910

Josef Schöffel as Siegfried; Karlsruhe, ca. 1921

Hans Tänzler as Siegfried; Karlsruhe, 1910

Jacques Urlus as Siegfried; Berlin ?, ca. 1907

Fritz Vogelstrom as Siegfried; Mannheim, ca. 1909

Hermann Winkelmann as Siegfried; Vienna, 1880

Marie Brema as Brünnhilde; London, 1897

Louise Grandjean as Brünnhilde; Paris, 1908

Felia Litvinne as Brünnhilde with Grane; Brussels, 1902

Katharina Senger-Bettaque as Brünnhilde; Berlin, 1898

Fanni Wahrmann-Schöllinger as Brünnhilde with Grane; Hannover, 1920

Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann as Brünnhilde; Leipzig, ca. 1886

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Forest Nymph details by Paul Hermann Wagner (German, 1852-1937)

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Events 8.17 (1840-1945)

1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. 1866 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia. 1876 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. 1896 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom. 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John Slaton. 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). 1916 – World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side. 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published. 1945 – Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean border, Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the Republic of China.

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Holidays 2.24

Holidays

Central Excise Day (India)

Day of Stripes & Dots

Dia de la Bandera (Flag Day; Mexico)

Dragobete (Lover's Day; Romania)

Edwin Dickinson Baker Day (Oregon)

Engineer’s Day (Iran)

Flag Day (Mexico)

Forget Me Not Day (Disabled Veterans)

Full Moon [2nd of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Bony Moon (Cherokee)

Budding Moon (China)

Daeboreum (Great Full Moon; Korea) [1st Full Moon of Lunar Calendar]

Eagle Moon (Traditional)

Grain Moon (South Africa)

The Great Fifteenth [Lunar Calendar]

Hunger or Hungry Moon (Alternate)

Ice Moon (Celtic)

Little Famine Moon (Choctaw)

Naval Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Raccoon Moon (Traditional)

Snow Moon (American Indian, North America, Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Barley, Corn, Dog, Grain, Red, Sturgeon, Wyrt Moons

Storm Moon (England, Neo-Pagan, Wicca)

Trapper’s Moon (Colonial)

Gregorian Calendar Day

Honus Wagner Day

International EBM Day

International Family Drug Support Day

International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day

International SCN2A Awareness Day

International War Animal Day

Loud Shirt Day (New Zealand)

Makha Bucha Day (Thailand)

Marbury vs. Madison Day

Mitch Hedberg Day

National Artist Day (Thailand)

National Dance Day

National Day for War Animals (Australia)

National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Trading Card Day

N'cwala (Thanksgiving; Zambia)

Nylon Toothbrush Day

Obnoxious Day

Osmon Roy (Osmanda Regalis) Day

Showza-Shinzan International Yukigassen Tournament (Snowball Fight; Japan)

Sweden Finns’ Day (Sweden)

Tourism Day (Taiwan)

Twin Peaks Day

Ukrainian War Anniversary Day

Voice of America Day

Wild Ginger Day (French Republic)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Caesar Salad Day

Defend the Donut Day

Gouden Carolus Cuvée van de Keizer Open Day

National I Hate Coriander Day

National Tortilla Chip Day

National Tortamali Day

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Day

World Bartender Day

4th & Last Saturday in February

Camellia Day (California) [Last Saturday]

Clam Chowder Cook-Off (Santa Cruz, CA) [Last Saturday & Sunday]

International Sword Swallowers Day [Last Saturday]

International Tongue Twister Contest Day [Last Saturday]

National Day of Terere (Paraguay) [Last Saturday]

National Library Open Day (UK) [Last Saturday]

National Pretty Brown Girl Day [4th Saturday]

National TRiO Day [4th Saturday]

Open That Bottle Night [Last Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Iseseisvuspäev, Independence Day of Estonia (from Russia, 1918)

Territory Day (Arizona; 1863)

Zamboanga Sibugay Province Day (Philippines)

Festivals Beginning February 24, 2024

Annapolis Restaurant Week (Annapolis, Maryland) [thru 3.3]

Beer City Festival (Santa Rosa, California)

Chinese New Year Parade (San Francisco, California)

Chocolate Wine Trail (Hermann, Missouri) [thru 2.25]

Melodifestivalen (Eskilstuna, Sweden)

New York City Beer Week (New York, New York) [thru 3.5]

Orange Beach Seafood Festival (Orange Beach, Alabama)

Taiwan Lantern Festival (Tainan, Taiwan) [thru 3.10]

Feast Days

Æthelberht of Kent (1st Christian Anglo-Saxon King) [original date]

Ascensión Nicol y Goñi (Christian; Blessed)

Ayyám-i-Há begins (Baha’i) [thru 2.28]

Beard Day (Pastafarian)

Carthaginian Ghost Spotting Day (Pastafarian)

Charles Le Brun (Artology)

Day of the Abdication of the Sacred King (Pagan)

Feast of Vartan (Armenia; Saint)

Giving of Shoes (Shamanism)

Hammie Swinette (Muppetism)

Huey Newton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lethard, Bishop of Senlis (Christian; Saint)

Lindel Tsen and Paul Sasaki (Anglican Church of Canada)

Lucan (Positivist; Saint)

Mattia Preti (Artology)

Matthias the Apostle (Christian; Saint)

Modest, Bishop of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Montanus, Lucius, Flavian, Julian, Victorious, Primolus, Rhenus, and Donation, martyrs at Carthage (Christian; Saint)

Pretextatus, Archbishop of Rouen (Christian; Saint)

Primrose Lore Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Regifugium (Flight of Kings; Ancient Rome)

Richard Hamilton (Artology)

Robert of Arbrissel (Christian; Saint)

Sergius of Cappadocia (Christian; Saint)

Sepandārmazgān (Women's Day; Zoroastrian Iran)

Shivaratri (Shiva’s Night; Hinduism; Everyday Wicca)

Winslow Homer (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol (Novel; 1938)

Buddy and Bowser (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Chips Ahoy (Disney Cartoon; 1956)

Cocaine Bear (Film; 2023)

Figure Eight (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1968)

Frozen Feet (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Get Out (Film; 2017)

Help Me Rhonda, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

How to Ride a Horse (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

I Got Six (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Johnny Cash at San Quentin, recorded by Johnny Cash (Concert Album; 1969)

Kidnapped (Disney Film; 1960)

Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp (Novel; 1941)

L’Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi (Opera; 1607) [1st Modern Opera]

Lucky Seven Sampson (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

Misguided Missile (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)

Musical Moments from Chopin (Woody Woodpecker & Andy Panda Cartoon; 1947)

My Life as a Zucchini (Animated Film; 2017)

O-Solar-Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen & Edvard Grieg (Musical Play; 1867)

Philadelphia Freedom, by Elton John (Song; 1975)

Physical Graffiti, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1975)

The Practical Pig (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1939)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Film; 1969)

Putty Tat Trouble (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rabbit Remembered, by John Updike (Novella; 2001)

Rinaldo, by George Frederic Handel (Opera; 1711)

Rock Dog (Animated Film; 2017)

Silk Stockings (Broadway Musical; 1955)

Space Kid (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1966)

Wanderlust (2012)

WhatsApp (Social Media App; 2009)

When You Wish Upon A Star, recorded by Frances Langford (Song; 1940)

Working Class Dog, by Rick Springfield (Album; 1981)

Today’s Name Days

Matthias (Austria)

Goran, Modest, Montan, Sinerot (Croatia)

Matěj (Czech Republic)

Mattias (Denmark)

Madi, Madis, Mäido, Maido, Maidu, Mait, Mati, Matis, Mats, Matti, Mattias (Estonia)

Matias, Matti (Finland)

Modeste (France)

Matthias (Germany)

Elemér (Hungary)

Edilberto (Italy)

Diāna, Dina, Dins, Gatins, Gatis, Kurbads (Latvia)

Gedmantas, Goda, Motiejus (Lithuania)

Mats, Mattias, Mattis (Norway)

Bogurad, Bogusz, Boguta, Bohusz, Lucjusz, Maciej, Piotr (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Matej (Slovakia)

Modesto, Sergio (Spain)

Mats, Mattias (Sweden)

Taras (Ukraine)

Maddison, Madison, Madisyn, Madyson, Mateo, Mathew, Mathias, Matt, Mattea, Matthea, Matthias, Mattias, Mattie, Matty, Modesto (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 55 of 2024; 311 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 8 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 155 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 15 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 14 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 25 Grey; Foursday [25 of 30]

Julian: 10 February 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 27 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucan]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 66 of 89)

Week: 3rd Week of February

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 6 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Half-Month 5 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 3.10)

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Forest Nymph (Paul Hermann Wagner, 1870)