Tag: Skulptur

Lining up

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My final square photo for this month of lines&squares with children lining up. Or is it bloggers already lining up for the next month of squares soon?

Linked to Lines&Squares: #31 in October.

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Knut Hünecke: Kopf

The title of this work by Heidelberg sculptor Knut Hüneke is simply “head”.  It was created and placed in the Schlosspark in Weinheim in 1985.

Knut Hünecke: Kopf

For One Word Sunday: Profile.

They made it happen

The carpet salesmen

This gilded tribute to the three men who made Birmingham great,  – referred to alternatively as The Carpet Salesmen or The Three Wise Men – is the city’s thank you to  James Watt, William Murdoch and Matthew Boulton.  They certainly used a lot of gold.

A Photo a Week.  For more gilded photos (literal or otherwise) click here.

All five again

Bavaria
Iconic: The statue of Bavaria in Munich
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Propagation: Hosta sprouts
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Cleaved
Ameisenbär?
Zoomorphic: Statue at the Heidelberg Zoo
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Marginal

This is for Thursday Special: Pick a Word.  More marginal, iconic, zoomorphic, cleaved, and propagation photos can be found here.

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Innocents abroad

Mark Twain

When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him.  I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books).   I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”  He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.

For One Word Sunday: celebrity.

For more celebrity shots click here.