Also of Interest:
What do the Friedrich-paintings Das Große Gehege (The Great Enclosure) (1832), Hünengrab im Schnee (Dolmen in the Snow) (1807), Abtei im Eichwald (Abbey in the Oak Wood) (1818), Frau vor der untergehenden Sonne (Woman in Front oft the Setting Sun) (1818) and Nordische Landschaft/Frühling (Northern Landscape/Spring) (1825) have in common? Correct, they all include motifs recorded by Caspar David Friedrich between April and June of 1804 in a booklet, which is called the "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" today. Here you can flip through it.
Since 1939, this picture by Antwerp painter Frans Francken II has not been seen by the public. One reason was the disastrous condition of the painting. Now it has been elaborately restored for the exhibition "TEAMWORK in Antwerp! Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick van Balen and Others". We have documented the process on film. It becomes clear that restoration is also a matter of teamwork, with many different specialists taking part.
What declares itself to be nonsense declares itself to be harmless. Supposedly. Because the consequence of such self-determination is the famous jester's license, which a group of theater people in the GDR also claimed for themselves in the 1980s when they called themselves “Zinnober” and began making Punch and Judy shows for adults. Their play “Die Jäger des verlorenen Verstandes” (Raiders of the Lost Mind) can easily be read by the audience as a mockery of the GDR state system and its toleration is hard to believe in retrospect - but true.
