Baron Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin (22 June 1784 – 3 September 1856) is all but forgotten today. In mid 19th century France he was an incredible phenomenon. A... Read More
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“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... Read More
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 family of... Read More
Criminals.
Strange bite-sized chunks of retro criminality plucked from the past for your perusal.
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Californians were no strangers to death by shooting in the late 1800s. The gunmen and their victims were mostly men. The events that unfolded at the Belew household in Dixon in November 1897... Read More
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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... Read More
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... Read More
Satirical journal Der Wahre Jacob was founded in 1879 in Hamburg with the aim of fighting the monarchy and mammonism. It was run by Social Democrats. The first 12... Read More
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Sometime in September of 1890, in a small Italian village called Ornavasso in the Piedmont region of Italy, a man called Enrico Bianchetti recieved news of something that would... Read More
Whilst these woodcut prints (below) by Seitei (after Bijutsu Sekai) seem surprisingly simple and contemporary, the artist’s background is complex and ancient. In 1851 when the artist... Read More
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Geesje Kwak was born in 1877 in Zaandam, North Holland province. When she was 16, Geesje moved with her sister Anna to Amsterdam to settle into... Read More
Art & design.
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During the mid-Edo period of 1603-1867, Japan sealed itself off from the world outside and was ruled by a feudal military shogunate of samurai called the Tokugawa who forged a strong hold over the 300 regional daimyō,... Read More
At around 12 years old, I learned that you can judge a book by its cover, and that a cover can change the way reading a book feels. My childhood family holidays were spent... Read More
Whilst these woodcut prints (below) by Seitei (after Bijutsu Sekai) 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... Read More
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“‘Bath and slept with Gladys.’, ‘Expt. (experiment) with dog in eve’ (the rest has been obliterated). Then, five days later, ‘Bath. Continued experiment with dog after and discovered that a dog will join... Read More
The Australian Martin Lewis is one of America’s greatest chroniclers of urban life. He came to possess a magical power – the ability to capture obscure light sources, the light within shadow, adverse weather... Read More
Obscuriousities.
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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 for Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt a kind... Read More
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The life of the French poet Maurice Rollinat (1846-1903) was destined for darkness. He sprang from a deep well of it. Recent research into psychiatry reveals a clear link between bipolar “and creativity,... Read More
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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... Read More
Front covers from the Austrian magazine Der Orchideengarten – The Orchid Garden – which preceded the American magazine Weird Tales by four years, making it the world’s first fantasy magazine. From “The Black Mirror and Other... Read More
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“‘Bath and slept with Gladys.’, ‘Expt. (experiment) with dog in eve’ (the rest has been obliterated). Then, five days later, ‘Bath. Continued experiment with dog after and discovered that a dog will join... Read More
In the early 1870s the New York publishers, D. Appleton & Co. sent a group of the best illustrators in America to Europe for their Picturesque Europe Series.... Read More
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... Read More
Nature.
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Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena (1832-1910), artists and naturalists, were born in Sydney, Helena on 11 April 1832. Educated by their father on Ash Island, they acquired a considerable knowledge of Australian plants, animals... Read More
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Long before cabled observatories were built to explore the ocean, HMS Challenger embarked on the world’s first global oceanographic expedition. Sponsored by the Royal Society of London, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, the... Read More
Eggert Ólafsson was the son of a farmer from Svefneyjar in Breiðafjörður. He studied natural sciences, Classics, Grammar, Law and Agriculture at the University of Copenhagen. He obtained a bachelor’s... Read More
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... Read More
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The life of the French poet Maurice Rollinat (1846-1903) was destined for... Read More
In the early 1870s the New York publishers, D. Appleton & Co.... Read More
Sometime in September of 1890, in a small Italian village called Ornavasso in... Read More
Court of Assizes of the Seine. Paris, Monday June 26, 1874. A... Read More
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At the age of 6, Wenzel Hablika stared deeply into a crystal... Read More
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“He lives in a museum – alone – and likes it. Keeps... Read More
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. Part 2.
Painting the cosmos in 1892.
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