Greetings from Munich!
A couple of weeks ago I was in Munich, and found there some wild boar themed art works, which you might also find interesting:
Some of you have maybe already seen on my tumbrl these pictures of this wonderful little porcelain Meissen’s wild boar statuette I saw on display at the Kunstring shop window, but I'd like to share the photos here as well.
There was also a very nice (and a very expensive) tea set decorated with pink roses... To imagine the earl and the major drinking an afternoon tea with the latter's father was an entertaining idea... I should maybe try to draw a short comic strip of it.
Now then from applied arts to fine arts... This painting of a Boar Hunt (Eberjagd) by Roelant Savery in Alte Pinakothek:
It's a quite violent scene, as in fact most of the art that features wild boars, which are almost always pictured solely as a fierce game to be hunted and killed by heroic men. And it's not overly hard to see some similarities between this theme and the relations between the earl and the major... Though the earl is very likely to be more interested in domesticating than killing his prey.
This painting attributed to Giorgione, Portrait of a Young Man (Brustbild eines jungen Mannes, circa 1510) was also quite an eye-catcher. And thanks to that fur-coat he's wearing (and my vivid imagination), he almost looks like he could be a wild boar turned into a human...
This one I found completely by fortune on my way to the main train station, where my return journey back to Bonn was to begin: a bronze statue of a Sitting Boar (Sitzender Keiler) by Martin Mayer. It's situated in front of German Hunting and Fishing Museum (Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum), where it was erected in 1976. I could easily imagine a sculpture like this to be found from the grounds of Schloss Eberbach. Or to ornate Castle Gloria.
The pose reminds me a bit of the pin-up girls of 50s (!), even if I know fully well that its appearance is intended as a reference to a baroque fountain by Pietro Tacca in Florence called Il Porcellino which in turn is modeled after the Uffizi Boar, a Roman replica of a lost Greek original.
The boar's expression looks somewhat disapproving... as if it were irritated by something... or someone. But then again who weren't pissed off by total strangers constantly stopping to stare and paw your snout. :P
But still beautiful, isn't he? :>
And then something completely different:
In Englischer Garten there was a sculpture depicting a giant (golden) potato. To be honest, I don't remember when I'd last seen this ridiculous a piece of art. Apparently the major is not the only German, who has deep-rooted love and respect for potatoes. X)
Some of you have maybe already seen on my tumbrl these pictures of this wonderful little porcelain Meissen’s wild boar statuette I saw on display at the Kunstring shop window, but I'd like to share the photos here as well.
There was also a very nice (and a very expensive) tea set decorated with pink roses... To imagine the earl and the major drinking an afternoon tea with the latter's father was an entertaining idea... I should maybe try to draw a short comic strip of it.
Now then from applied arts to fine arts... This painting of a Boar Hunt (Eberjagd) by Roelant Savery in Alte Pinakothek:
It's a quite violent scene, as in fact most of the art that features wild boars, which are almost always pictured solely as a fierce game to be hunted and killed by heroic men. And it's not overly hard to see some similarities between this theme and the relations between the earl and the major... Though the earl is very likely to be more interested in domesticating than killing his prey.
This painting attributed to Giorgione, Portrait of a Young Man (Brustbild eines jungen Mannes, circa 1510) was also quite an eye-catcher. And thanks to that fur-coat he's wearing (and my vivid imagination), he almost looks like he could be a wild boar turned into a human...
This one I found completely by fortune on my way to the main train station, where my return journey back to Bonn was to begin: a bronze statue of a Sitting Boar (Sitzender Keiler) by Martin Mayer. It's situated in front of German Hunting and Fishing Museum (Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum), where it was erected in 1976. I could easily imagine a sculpture like this to be found from the grounds of Schloss Eberbach. Or to ornate Castle Gloria.
The pose reminds me a bit of the pin-up girls of 50s (!), even if I know fully well that its appearance is intended as a reference to a baroque fountain by Pietro Tacca in Florence called Il Porcellino which in turn is modeled after the Uffizi Boar, a Roman replica of a lost Greek original.
The boar's expression looks somewhat disapproving... as if it were irritated by something... or someone. But then again who weren't pissed off by total strangers constantly stopping to stare and paw your snout. :P
But still beautiful, isn't he? :>
And then something completely different:
In Englischer Garten there was a sculpture depicting a giant (golden) potato. To be honest, I don't remember when I'd last seen this ridiculous a piece of art. Apparently the major is not the only German, who has deep-rooted love and respect for potatoes. X)