#the lion of gripsholm castle

[snailspng]

wow wowie wow wait ! t'es français.e ?

Non. I'm from the country responsible for this

[nostalgiavoid]

[uncommon-nettle]

[tofuingho]

I'd love to see a comic with a super cute story where all the characters look like terrible taxidermy. Like the Lion of Gripsholm Castle.

I don't know why, but it'd be fantastic

[achildsfirstsorrow]

Whenever I think about Cherik my mind always conjures up the image of the terribly taxidermied Lion of Gripsholm Castle, which is fitting I guess.

[n-e-moe]

※ I made these as model sheets for something I wanted to draw a little more dynamic later on, before I forgot about them and left them to rot in my folder. Side bar: I learned Jubilee is apparently a vampire currently. That's neat. Side bar beside the side bar: Beast's design is based on the Lion of Gripsholm Castle. Even sider bar: Wolverine is short.

[northchef]

Went to visit the One True King today, the lion of Gripsholm Castle.

Many stories surround this epically bad example of taxidermy, ranging from the taxidermist never having seen a lion before and only receiving the bones and skin, to the idea that the result, meant to be viewed from the side, is made to resemble a heraldic lion, making the final result no less of an insult to lion-kind.

Amazing, five stars.

[charlesherbertlightoller]

Another Halloween, another creepy paper mâché mask done. I'm going as The Lion of Gripsholm Castle

[xavierbautistagarcia]

A palace in a movie

Gripsholm Castle (Gripsholms slott, in Swedish) originated as a fortress built during the 1370s by Bo Jonsson Grip, one of the highest officials of the Swedish court during the regency of Magnus IV, which explains the name it received and kept ever since.

Throughout the 15th century, the building changed hands between Queen Margrete I and another regent, Sten Sture, whose family eventually gave it over to become a charterhouse, which remained until the Swedish Lutheran Reformation, when in 1526 King Gustav I Vasa dissolved it and returned the castle to the heirs of Sten Sture's family.

Its location on the shores of Lake Mälaren, just over 50 kilometres from Stockholm, prompted King Erik XIV to reform it into a royal residence, but it also served as a place of seclusion for the king's brother, whose son Sigismund III eventually imprisoned his uncle.

In the 17th century it served as a residence for widowed queens, before becoming a prison in the next century, only to become a royal residence again, before King Gustav IV August was deposed and imprisoned in the castle in 1809. Gripsholms slott then became a museum, until the present day.

However, Gripsholm slott was the subject of another story, that of the German journalist Kurt Tucholsky, who used the pseudonym Kaspar Hauser, the name of a young man from the 19th century who gave life to one of director Werner Herzog's most celebrated films.

Tucholsky emigrated to Sweden in 1929, warning against the imminent rise of the National Socialists to power in Germany, and dedicated one of his works to Gripsholm Castle, a romantic summer love story with autobiographical reminiscences. It was made into a film twice, in 1963 and 2000.

Tucholsky's satirical, if rather political, works may have their climax in Gripsholm's famous stuffed lion, known to be the worst taxidermy in history. The lion, a gift from the bei of Algiers to King Fredrik I, arrived in Sweden in 1731 and is considered to be the first of its kind known in Scandinavia. When the feline died, no one had ever seen one and the taxidermist did what he could.

Photo: Mattias Lepapaniemi

[nkp1981]

"The Lion of Gripsholm Castle" is a poorly taxidermied lion from 18th-century Sweden

[sethshead]

“Use your imagination”, they said. “Imagination is the greatest superpower”, they said. “You can achieve anything with imagination”, they said.

No one mentioned to the taxidermist that imagination can create the most ghastly horrors.

[bogkeep]

the most important part of any castle visit, apart from the gift shop OBVIOUSLY, is to document Cool Creatures.

[deadpanwalking]

why is he bald except his head? Is that normal or does he have problems?

Pyotr doesn't have problems, he is problems.

[jokercatnlm]

Bad lioden Idea; you can now do a taxidermy of past kings which becomes a decor, but you can also fuck it up and end up with...

[louischangeur]

-Bande dessinée - LE LION DE GRIPSHOLM- 3 pages, le film d'animation à venir...

 -Comic - THE GRIPSHOLM LION - 3 pages -I am making the animated movie now, coming soon-