june 13
ALBERTO HENSCHEL (June 13, 1827)
June 13 is the birthday of German-Brazilian photographer and businessman ALBERTO HENSCHEL (1827-1882).
Henschel "was considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo . . . his principal contribution to the history of Brazilian photography is his photographic record of the different social classes in Brazil in the 19th century: portraits, usually in the carte de visite format, taken of the nobility, of rich tradesmen, of the middle-class, and of black people, either slaves or free." (Wikipedia)
Black saleswoman of fruits. Rio de Janeiro (1870)
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Escrava de turbante, c. 1867. Brasil.
W.B. YEATS (June 13, 1865)
June 13 is the birthday of Irish poet W.B. YEATS (1865-1939).
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Yeats "was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake and many more. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." (Wikipedia)
KARL BLOSSFELDT (June 13, 1865)
June 13 is the birthday of German photographer KARL BLOSSFELDT (1865-1932).
Blossfeldt "made many of his photographs with a home-made camera that could magnify the subject up to thirty times its size, revealing details within a plant's natural structure. Appointed for a teaching post at the Institute of Royal Arts Museum in 1898 (where he remained until 1930), he established an archive for his photographs. Blossfeldt never received formal training in photography. Blossfeldt developed a series of home-made cameras that allowed him to photograph plant surfaces in unprecedented magnified detail. This reflected his enduring interest in the repetitive patterns found in nature's textures and forms." (Wikipedia)
Adiantum pedatum (Maiden hair fern)
Nigella Damascena Spinnenkopf circa 1932
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JOSEPH STELLA (June 13, 1877)
June 13 is the birthday of Italian-American artist JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946).
Stella "was a Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s." (Wikipedia)
The Virgin
Night View of the Brooklyn Bridge
Palm Tree with Bird
JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE (June 13, 1894)
June 13 is the birthday of French photographer JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE (1894-1986).
“It’s marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I’m going to photograph everything, everything!”
Lartigue "was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models." (Wikipedia)
GOTTHARD GRAUBNER (June 13, 1930)
June 13 is the birthday of German artist GOTTHARD GRAUBNER (1930-2013).
According to the art critic Berke Inel, Graubner "presents color to the audience as though it were a landscape. While he does not use specific shapes, he uses color shades and the warm-cold balances and contrasts very well. His artworks have no specific topic and theory and represent a research into color and a 'tone in tone' approach."
"schaum einer kindlichen lunge”
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Le vent du soleil
CHRISTO (June 13, 1935)
June 13 is the birthday of Bulgarian-French artist CHRISTO (1935–2020).
"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."
Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon "were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park." (Wikipedia)
Christo is legendary in Kansas City for his "Wrapped Walkways" project in Loose Park in 1978.
