We think of the 19th century as a dusty, monochrome environment, where solemn people stand still for photos, in grey spaces, dressed in shades of grey. It wasn’t. The century, especially the last part of it, was psychedelic with colour. New technology...
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The French poet Apollinaire once described how his friend Rousseau would quite genuinely become...
George Catlin (1796 – 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized...
In 1944, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) died in Djursholm, Sweden, aged almost...
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Little diamonds.
We've reached into history's mist and pulled them out for your perusal.
The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, a gigantic water lily, was first discovered along the Amazon River and taken to Britain for cultivation. This so-called “vegetable wonder” was a spectacular flower. Nineteenth century commentators described with amazement the...
Although trained as a medical doctor specialising in Cholera, Dr. John Murray excelled as...
During the mid-Edo period of 1603-1867, Japan sealed itself off from the world outside...
Maxfield Parrish was an insanely prolific and popular American painter and illustrator working in...
Somewhere in the early 2000s, the Ialomita County Museum, a small regional museum in...
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Life & Art.
Same thing, right?
Ridiculously prolific & versatile, the 18th-century Dutch Republic painter from Dordrecht, Aert Schouman (1710...
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904) knew the power of a nude. It is, of course,...
During the late 1800s, in German speaking countries, the Swiss botanist, Dr. Arnold Dodel-Port...
Time travel tourism.
You can still go there.
These Photochrome images of Switzerland are by Photocrome Zurich, made shortly after they invented the process in the 1880s. There were 3 variations of the Photocrome processes at the time; Fotochrom, & Aäc Photocrome & the original, PhotoChrome. The Photocrome process was an old school process for colourizing black-and-white negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lo-fi lithographic printing plates made of stone. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). Creatively choosing...
The photographer Thomas Andrew once had a thriving studio in on the corner of Karangahape Road and Pitt St. in Auckland, New Zealand. In the early...
During the winters of 1877–78 and 1878–79, the New York publishing house of D. Appleton & Co. sent 2 illustrators to tour Egypt and the Levant area to produce sketches...
Peyton Boswell, the art critic and founder of The Art Digest (“America’s news magazine of”) art was asked to write a preface to a program for...
Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing black-and-white negatives via the direct photographic...
Physiognomy is the practice of assessing someone’s character and personality based solely on their appearance, especially the face. In other words judging a book by its cover. In his Gallerie Physionomique of 1836, the prolific caricaturist, Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers (known as C.J. Traviès), practiced this shamelessly un-PC exercise on the denizens of 1830s Paris in the form of character portraits. Traviès was ruthless, but it’s so evident that he drew these people with love, insight and understanding....
All kinds of blue.
To colour match your decor, add indigo accents or use as the catalyst for a new colour scheme.
Behold. Anonimo.
The unintentionally surreal and strangely engaging art of an anonymous ("anonimo") turn of the century Italian Zoological wallchart maker.
Anonimo. These proto-Simpsons cartoon-like Zoology teaching aid illustrations were made in the late 1800s...
The nameless Italian artist who’ll now & forever be known, by so very few,...
One thing’s for sure. Many small animals died in the making of this work...
Time travel tourism.
You can still go there.
Whilst these woodcut prints (below) by Watanabe Seitei for the art magazine, Bijutsu Sekai (The World of Art) seem surprisingly simple and contemporary, the artist’s background is complex and ancient. In 1851 when the artist now known as Watanabe Shōtei (AKA Watanabe Seitei) was born he was named Yoshikawa Yoshimata and Tokyo didn’t yet exist. Tokyo was then a city called Edo and samurai still walked its streets. He descended from a family of rice brokers and was apprenticed to...
Joseph Schillinger (1895-1945), was a man way ahead of his time. In the 1930’s he wrote that in the not to distant future, old school orchestra...
A son of a Northamptonshire shoe factory owner, the English painter and book illustrator Thomas Cooper Gotch or “T.C.” Gotch (1854–1931) operated on the margins of the Pre-Raphaelite movement...
The two pencil sketches of the tragic twin artist brothers Maurice and Edward Detmold are perhaps two of the most haunted and poigniant drawings from the...
Early February 1944. Watergraafsmeer near Amsterdam. Nazi occupied Holland. Today Escher has travelled 30 kilometres from his home in Baarn to to see the De Mesquita...
Irrespective of him being one of the greatest interpreters of the American landscape, England should claim Thomas Moran (1837-1926). He was born there, in Bolton, Lancashire. He came to the states as a child, attended the Hudson River School in New York and as a fledgling artist, shared a New York studio with his older brother, the noted marine artist Edward Moran. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner’s Monthly who...
Myth & legend.
Add some storyline and authentic epicness to your walls.
Cast your eyes on wonderful things.
"I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.” - the Egyptologist, Howard Carter talking about the moment he first looked inside the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
Digital imagery created using Echinodermata specimens collected by scientists on the Australian & New...
One day in September 1890, in Ornavasso, a small Italian village in the Piedmont region of...
Fedor Grigoryevich Solntsev was a Russian painter and historian of art who played a...
Pfurtscheller was an Austrian zoologist and natural history artist who produced a series of...
Both the South Island Stout-legged Wren or Yaldwyn’s Wren and the Dieffenbach’s Rail or...
“A popular description of their occurrence, value, history, archaeology, and of the collections in...
Irrational Geographic.
Backdated & belatedly curated.
Between 1805 and 1808, the Amsterdam artist Christiaan Andriessen kept a diary; a visual diary with over 700 drawings and watercolors depicting the the goings on in his life, with his friends, family and events in the city. Christiaan came from a family who encouraged his artistic pursuits; his father was the Dutch decorative painter, graphic artist and teacher, Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819). Jurriaan was also a meticulous diary keeper and the Rijksmuseum holds 20 years of his diaries. Perhaps...
Keizersgracht Theatre Fire of 11 May 1722. In 1664 it was decided that Amsterdam’s Van Campen was too small and out of date. It had to...
Yle is Finland’s national public broadcasting service. Suomen Yleisradio (Finland’s General Radio) was founded in Helsinki on 29 May 1926. By 1928 Yle’s broadcasts became available to the whole...
Not the most likely canditate for artistic photographer, Hubertus Salomon Hordijk (1862-1930) kept his passion to himself for a decade. No-one was going to argue. He...
Art. Leaked from ancient labs.
Seriously awesome art by serious scientists.
The Italian illustrator and entomologist Amedeo John Engel Terzi (1872 -1956) specialised in Diptera. The true flies. In his lifetime he drew over 37,000 of them. Beautifully. The fly drawing began in the late 1800s when Terzi was asked by Scottish physician, Sir Patrick Manson to...
In the mid-1800s, the inner workings of the human eye were as remote and undiscovered...
It began in the early 1860s and as a student in Berlin when German botanist,...
These images are University instructional posters. They come from a series entitled Botanische Wandtafeln (1874-1911)...
Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947), was born on a farm near Granville, Illinois, five years after...
People are strange.
When you're a stranger.
TUNIS SPEEDWAY, WATERLOO, IOWA, U.S.A. 1950/1960/1970 In the late 1940s, Judd L. Tunis, a local meat cutter and sausage maker was tired of loading up horses and hauling them 25 miles away just to exercise them on a track. He bought 52...
American, 1824 – 1900 William Holbrook Beard (1824 – 1900) came from Plainsville, Ohio...
Renowned for his “brilliant mountaineering skill on ice and rock, his truly admirable perseverance,...
He was born, the third of five children, 150 years ago in Purworejo, a...
At the age of 6, Wenzel Hablika stared deeply into a crystal he’d found...
Moody monotone adventures in war torn 1950s Hungary with UVATERV’s anonymous state photography dept.
UNATERV was an organisation born of misery, chaos and utter carnage. In September of 1944, the retreating German army demolished Hungary’s rail, road, and communication systems and the Soviet Army occupied Hungary from April 1945. To say the Germany army held on...
The brothers Horácio (1910-1988) and Mário Novais (1899-1967) were born into a Portuguese photography family....
It’s 1871, the year long French/Prussian war has just ended leaving massive loss of...
Seghers was one of the most unusual artists to emerge from the Dutch Golden...
Court of Assizes of the Seine. Paris, Monday June 26, 1874. A young man and a young woman arrive to sit before President Louis Claude Douët d’Arcq on the “bench of infamy”. A gray town guard stands between them. He, a handsome...
Still gorgeous.
After all these years.
Authentic outliers & outsiders.
Putting the "also rans" first.
We have this. Anna Berent was born in 1871 in Kaiserslautern and died sometime after 1944. Perhaps in Zagreb. In the 1890s, she was studying in Munich, at the Stanisław Grocholski school and at the school...
“He lives in a museum – alone – and likes it. Keeps snakes as pets, is fanatically interested in primitive things and does all his creative work at night. He doesn’t make preliminary...
Adolf Wölfli, born in Bowil (Switzerland) in 1894, had a rough childhood : his father, a stone sculptor who drank away all of his paycheques, abandoned his family in 1872. Adolf and his mother...
Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren or Abraham van Beyeren was born in The Hague somewhere around 1620. He died in March 1690 in Overschie, Rotterdam. During his 70 years he was little known or recognised for his dark, Baroque still lifes. Van Beyeren specialised in an ornate style of still life known as Pronkstilleven, (Dutch for ‘ostentatious’, ‘ornate’ or ‘sumptuous’). This sumptuous style (and it is so very sumptuous) originated in Antwerp in the 1640s from where its ostentatiousness spread over the Dutch […]...
The city planner Lúcio Costa laid out Brazilia like an abstract bird. Costa gave the palace of National Congress (Congresso Nacional) building pride of place at the head...
Władysław Teodor “W.T.” Benda (1873–1948) was a Polish painter, illustrator, designer and mask-maker. The son of musician Jan Szymon Benda, and a nephew of the actress Helena Modrzejewska...
Reijer Johan Antonie Stolk was as elusive and opaque a character as his work is bold. Born on Java in Indonesia. it’s known that Stolk, the future graphic...
Antoon’s mother had fourteen children. Of the ten that didn’t die early, he would be the one that shone. Recently 2 or 3 of his childhood drawings appeared...
Featured prints
Nudes of the 1800s.
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Winner of the coveted Prix de Rome in 1861, Lefebvre fulfilled his early promise both as a painter of meticulously executed portraits...
Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was a German artist and writer whose whose work fused impressionism & expressionism into a brutal concoction all his own. His nudes expose his style perfectly. They’re not pretty, they are...
Luis Ricardo Fallero painted nudes and not a lot else. Like an early Hugh Hefner in prototype, his world revolved around nudes. He did however, also have a strong side interest in astronomy;...
Poland.
Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. His creative output took in the predominant style of his times; historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, mythology,...
Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) was a leading figure in Poland’s modernist movement who dabbled in history painting, the Polish Realism movement, Impressioniam (after visiting Paris, of course), Orientalism and even Symbolism. This was all...
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Breitner sought social realism in his work. He was one of the first artists to use photos as studies for specific paintings, not just of street scenes but in the studio as well. He integrated this perspective into his studio portraits by making a point of employing working class models. One of these models would become the “girl in the kimono”, immortalised in a series of 13 Japonisme inspired paintings. The “girl in the kimono” was a milliner’s shopgirl named […]...
In 1873, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) a 13 year old Tokyo schoolboy from a family of Samurai was introduced to photography by a British missionary. Enthused, he bought himself...
James Sowerby (1757 – 1822) was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. When he published his colour theory, A new elucidation of colours (1809), as his homage to Issac...
Nothing to see here. No scandal, no crazy artist-dies-in-rags-after-throwing-it-all-away. The short, bitter sweet story of Mikuláš Galanda (1895-1938) is one of honesty. In his short life Galanda did...
Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands at 8.30 p.m on Sunday, 7th July 1652. The Old Town Hall is ablaze and the place will burn for 24 hours until Monday...
John Martin painted various apocolypses. Over and over and over. He was an Apocolyptian painter. Perhaps, it was a kind of escapism. It makes a kind of sense; a man born in a claustrophobic one bedroom cottage in Northumberland, England, who grew up to paint vast open expanses. It could be the other way around. He felt safe when closed in, safe from the hell of a threatening world outside. The source of calamity however most likely eminated from blood. […]...
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz was the first internationally known female artist from Poland. She established herself as a portrait artist in Paris, her work hung at the most prestigious European...
1. Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon, Utah. Andreas Feininger, 1 November 1942. . . 2. Columbia Steel Company, Geneva, Utah. Andreas Feininger, January 1 1942....
Although trained as a medical doctor specialising in Cholera, Dr. John Murray excelled as a photographer. He was introduced to photography around 1849 while in the Medical Service...
This art form takes time and planning ahead. Way ahead. Simply take your loved ones to a local photo studio, select your favourite image, have it printed out in sepia. Now cut it out ever so carefully. Now paint your choice of background in oils on a wooden board, glue on your photo and hand colour it to blend it right in. Make their cheeks a little bit rosy and perhaps as a final touch consider adding a little lock […]...
Art & life.
Strawberries & cream.
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof (1866 – 1924), was a Dutch painter heavily involved in the arts and crafts movement. Born in Zwollerkerspel, Dijsselhof studied first at the art academy in The Hague, then moved...
Somewhere in the early 2000s, the Ialomita County Museum, a small regional museum in a small Romanian regional town was handed an authentic Pandora’s Box by a curious member of the Acsinte family...
The French painter, Jean-Gabriel Domergue wasn’t simply, as he claims “the creator of the pin-up.” As well as redefining the look and attitude of a new, liberated “la belle Parisienne”, in the aftermath...
He was born, the third of five children, 150 years ago in Purworejo, a place half way along the long thin island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. His parents, Christoffel and...
Augustus Leopold Egg RA (1816 – 1863), was a Victorian artist best known for one thing. An incredible symbol-laden, epic triptych called Past and Present (1858), which chronicled the disintegration of a middle-class...
These life studies were once thought, by the Royal Academy where they are held, to be the work of the great William Etty. But there’s a problem. Etty died in 1949 and one...
“There’s just something absolutely magical about his panoramas,” said Tom Patterson, a senior cartographer with the U.S. National Park Service. To say Heinrich Caesar Berann (1915-1999) made maps is a bit like saying Muhammed...
The obscure art nouveau illustrator, Emmanuel Joseph Raphaël Orazi, known as Manuel Orazi, was probably born in Rome in 1860 and definitely died in Paris in 1934. Information on Orazi is scant. Yet another...
The world was his plaything. Whether camera or canvas, whatever media he used, László Moholy-Nagy was able to bend the world at will, to make it fit his strong sense of composition. Circles,...
In 1906, a lighthouse desparately needed to be built on Kråkenes, a rocky, knife-like promontory jutting from the northwestern tip of the island of Vågsøy in Vestland County, Norway. Enter Anders Folkestadås (1865-1914),...
These photographs were taken in 1970s Yemen by a Portuguese architect and urban planner named Professor Fernando José de Sá Martins Varanda. In 1973, Varanda began extensive research specifically on built spaces in...
Helene Schjerfbeck was born on July 10, 1862, into an originally Swedish family living in Helsinki when Finland was part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. At 4 years old the toddler Helene fell...
Armchair tourism.
On July 30, 1937, an 81 year old photographer named Reuben R. Sallows was driving a truck, packed with photography apparatus, south on Highway 21 near Kintail in Ontario, Canada. He was on his way to photograph a local summer camp, when one of his tyres blew out. The road’s loose gravel meant that Sallow’s truck flipped. It landed in into a roadside ditch, pinning him into the ground. “Mr. Sallows was conscious when pulled from beneath his old car […]...
For 18th-century Britons, Constantinople, now Istanbul, was perceived as a city of charm, exoticism and historical pedigree. In 1798, British interest in the city increased dramatically when the...
Laurens Alma Tadema (1836-1912) was the son of a public notary in the village of Dronrijp in Friesland, Holland. At sixteen he enrolled at the art academy in...
Artistic blood flows pure and fast in the Knip veins. Born into creativity in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 1877, Josephus Augustus Knip was the son of a decorative...
Monuments of Persian architecture: historical study and recording of Muslim brick buildings in Asia Minor and Persia by Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre. Sarre was a German Orientalist, archaeologist and art historian who, during amassed an impressive collection of Islamic art during his lifetime. His father was from a Huguenot family, his mother from the Heckmann industrialist family. Sarre studied art history in Leipzig. He travelled for archaeological research thanks to his aunt Elise Wentzel-Heckmann (1833-1914) to Anatolia, Persia and Central Asia, specializing in Islamic art. Together with Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) he excavated […]...
Here's to the crazy ones.
The few in the multitudes that stand up and stand out.
It’s thought that Philipp was born around 1664, in Brussels, and that his father, the Scottish painter James de Hamilton, taught he and his Munich-born older brother, Johann Georg, to paint. De Hamilton...
Adolphe Menzel was different to other people. Or rather, everyone was different to him. He was very small man, he stood just four feet and six inches tall, and had an unusually over-large...
Feted by the hyper rich and influential of the time, Pillement was avidly collected by the famous English actor, David Garrick, and his Austrian wife Eva Maria Weigel and Marie Antoinette employed him...
Renowned for his “brilliant mountaineering skill on ice and rock, his truly admirable perseverance, his inexhaustible patience in bearing hardships”, Edward Theodore Compton, a.k.a. “E. T.” Compton, (1849 –1921) also painted the mountains...
The Scottish photographer and travel writer John Thomson (1837-1921) set off for Asia in April of 1862. He was headed for Singapore to join his brother who was working there as a watchmaker....
American, 1824 – 1900 William Holbrook Beard (1824 – 1900) came from Plainsville, Ohio to New York via a period studying abroad. In the 1860s he established his own own artist’s studio on...
The first issue of the German satirical magazine, Lachen Links (Laughter Left) was published on January 11, 1924. “Ridiculousness kills” was its’s motto. The name, Laughter Left refers to German parliamentary parlance – the laughing at an opponent on the other side of the political spectrum was referred to as to “laugh left” or “laugh right’. Laughter Left was clear where it stood. The magazine “laughed left”. The magazine is an impressive testimony to wit and satire as a powerful protest […]...
Invented 140 years ago in 1880s Zurich, Photochrom, a.k.a. Fotochrom, Photochrome or Aäc process, is an old school process for colourizing black-and-white negatives via the direct photographic transfer of...
At the age of 6, Wenzel Hablika stared deeply into a crystal he’d found in his hometown of Brüx in Czechoslaovakia. The toddler Wendel saw “magical castles and...
The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, a gigantic water lily, was first discovered along the Amazon River and taken to Britain for cultivation. This...
Jugendstil, the German Art Nouveau movement, was named after a hedonistic literary and arts magazine called Jugenda. The Jugendstil movement embraced all areas of the arts from graphic design and...
Munich satirical magazine, Der Affenspiegel – “The Monkey Mirror“, launched in 1901, published 20 weekly issues and disappeared the same year. It was always printed in 2 colours which the artists maximised to great effect....
Miscellaneous. A pot pourri of pearls purloined from the past.
Random bite-sized chunks of extreme retro-ness plucked from the time's dust and polished for your perusal.
The Swedish National Heritage Board holds in its archives a large collection of photo postcards from the Almquist & Cöster Company, operative from the 1920s until 1968 they were one of Swedens major...
For almost a hundred years they were unknown to people. In Tomsk, Siberia, Galina Kolosova, the lady in charge of the Department of Rare Books in the city’s Research library discovered, among some...
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative...
He was an untiring, left handed, worker who was known for making seemingly endless preliminary studies and trial compositions before he’d even think about a final painting in oils. His paintings manage to...
No words. Just girls hugging crosses. A couple of crosses without anyone hugging them. Singles looking for love....
Martin Johnson Heade was an American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of tropical birds (such as hummingbirds), as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. His painting...
Remote fragments from the void.
Scattered elements. What stories lie in the gaps between? You fill in the blanks.
During 1913, an obscure Russian explorer named I.G. Ivanov (1826-1929) undertook two gruelling topographical expeditions into southern Siberia, one to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region and another to the Mrasskii region, the Kuznetskii District the centre of the Gornaia Shoria). The indigenous population of this region were the Shors or Shoria, people, practitioners of both shamanism and animism. These excellent photographs reflect both expedition activities and the life of the Shors. In the 1920s the negatives were transferred […]...
This collection of strange & slightly unnerving early 20th century colour(ed) postcards made by photographer Sergei Ivanovich Borisov (1859-1935) in the Altai Mountains region of southern Siberia early...
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Preserved in the National Library of Russia is a 1898 album detailing the history of a school in the province of Zabaykalsky Krai, the country’s Far East. It’s...
If you go to the very outer edge of nowhere, turn right and keep walking you may eventually get to Kamchatka. The indigenous Koryaks, call it “The Land...
Berdsk sits in the centre of Russia on the left bank of the Berdsk gulf, a wide flooded valley of the Berd River. Berd river > Berdsk town. Founded at the beginning of the 18th century as a fortress, at the time these images we taken, the town is not yet a city. The land surrounding the town is monotonous and incredibly plain. To the south of the town there are fields and a 20 square kilometer pine forest lays […]...
Bodies of work.
2 almost forgotten full of life artists models & some not so full of life. Peruse an artist's muse.
The very little known Cleo Dorman, (1908-1990) was an artist’s model in Los Angeles,...
Born and raised in Oakland, California in 1913, “San Francisco’s best loved artists’ model”,...
Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty (1716–1785) was a French anatomist, painter and printmaker who, as...
1910s - 1920s Russia. Three artists recorded one disappearing Siberian culture. Their art is all that remains.
Andrei Prokofievich Lekarenko (1895-1974) is one of three well-known Krasnoiarsk artists, (the other 2 being Dmitri Innokent’evich Karatanov & A. G. Vargin) who undertook several expeditions into Siberia during the 1910s and 1920s....
Next to nothing is known about the artist A. G. Vargin. What we do have goes like this; three well-known Krasnoiarsk artists, Dmitri Innokent’evich Karatanov, Andrei Prokofievich Lekarenko and our man A. G....
Dmitriĭ Innokentʹevich Karatanov (1874-1952) studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts but left the Academy in 1896 before finishing his course of study to return to Krasnoiarsk. He began teaching at...
The government surveys that capture so much more than they intended.
"Photographers unknown" give us a wonderfully randomised & totally unique scattergun view of the world. Anonymous deserves some belated kudos.
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A working-class stronghold, renowned for tight community bonds, radical politics, a love of drink and a strong tendency to violence and vice, Amsterdam’s ramshackle Jordaan neighbourhood in the late 1960s/early 1970 was a...
Design.
If you were from Bavaria, as many American immigrants were in the mid 1800s, it wouldn’t be at all strange if when you thought of goats you thought of beer. And vice versa. ...
Shortly after Lester Thomas Beall (1903-1969) was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1903, his family relocated to St. Louis before settling in Chicago. Beall grew up playing with ham radios and creating...
An early exponent of the Neue Sachlichkeit, “New Objectivity” movement, the Swiss painter Niklaus Stoecklin (1896–1982) was interested in what the figure, inanimate objects (still life), and landscapes could to to help him...
Obscuriousities.
Plucked quickly from within the fog of time for you to scroll slowly thru'.
83 years after they happened, a few moments, rare image fragments of life inside Hitler’s Germany have just surfaced in a Hungarian archive for found and donated public photography. The images hold the...
Sometime in 1903, a man of Swedish descent named Augustus Jansson began a 7-year stint working as a designer for Queen City Publishing of Cincinatti. His brief weas to showcase the company’s range...
Poor, wide eyed Genevieve Jones of Circleville, Ohio. She was never really a well girl and very unlucky in love. “Gennie”, as she was called, was home schooled by her mother before high...
Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926), was amongst the most prolific and best-known painter of Māoris in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. He was born far, far away form New Zealand in Pilsen, Bohemia,...
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (May 15, 1848, Lopyal, Vyatka Governorate – July 23, 1926, Moscow) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist...