Finished 29th November 2009

1000 Pieces
Sign of the Zodiac

Finished 27th November 2009

500 Pieces
Three sailingboats
Painted by Martina Still, contemporary painter (Hagen, Germany)
with special thanks for permission

Earlier this year I was asked to find inspirational texts for various pictures (paintings and photographs). You can now find them in a calendar called "Boats 2010". This is my story for the three boats:

"I'll come back", he said. "You'll see it: when the sails glow, I'll be yours forever." One fine day the sails glowed in bright orange contrastive to the blue sea. She looked for him, but he wasn't among them. At the very moment she knew that he belonged to another girl. Forever.

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Finished 25th November 2009

1000 Pieces
Sacre-Coeur, the Sacred-Heart Basilica of Montmartre, Paris

Montmartre means "Mount of Martyrs" as this mount in the north of the french capital was the place of martyrdom of the Saint Denis (3rd century). In 1534 the Society of Jesus was founded here by Ignatius of Loyola and Francois-Xavier. The french revolution brought chaos: the nuns of the benedictine abbey were executed under the guillotine and the abbey was destroyed. The now seen sacred-heart basilica was built in late 19th century in penitence of sins commited by french troops during a war between france and germany.

Finished 24th November 2009

100 Pieces
"Ronald McDonald House"
Hundertwasser-Style

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24 Pieces
"Stillife" by Paul Cézanne, french impressionism painter (1839-1906)
selfcut print on special paper

Finished 22nd November 2009

1000 Pieces
"The dog"
artist collection

Finished 17th November 2009

1000 Pieces
Puzzle of the ages "Romanticism"

(starting upper left side clockwise)
Illustration of a fairy tale
Portrait of the Brothers Grimm
Heinrich Heine "Book of Songs"
Heinrich Heine "The Loreley"
Portrait of Friedr. Hölderlin
Illustration of the "Three Musketeers" by A. Dumas
Portrait of Novalis
"Lohengrin" by R. Wagner
Niccolo Paganini, Violinist
Portrait of George Sand aka Aurore Dupin
Chopin "24 Preludes"
Illustration of "Swanlake" by Tschaikovsky
Frontpage of "Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber
"Lullaby" by Brahms
Couture of the Romanticism
"Die Hülsenbeckschen Kinder" by P.P. Runge
"The naked Maja" by Francisco Goya
"Mondschein über dem Vierwaldstätter See" by JMW Turner
"Liberty" by Delacroix
Portrait of Michael Faraday
Portraits of Edgar Allan Poe, Marquis de Sade and Victor Hugo
Illustration of "The ringer of Nôtre Dame" by Victor Hugo
Illustration of "The little Mermaid" by Hans Chr. Andersen
Portrait of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley
Illustration of "Kater Murr" by ETA Hoffmann

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Painting of "The Wanderer above the sea of fog" by CD Friedrich

Finished 13th November 2009

700 Pieces
Swimming market, Laos
Doing business in boats

Laos is a country in south-east Asia, between Vietnam and Thailand. Almost 7 Million Laotians live there - most of them in the aera close to the river Mekong. 50% of the country are covered with forests: rainforest and monsoon-forest. Tigers and Elephants are native to this country.

Finished 9th November 2009

1000 Pieces
Puppy Party

Finished 5th November 2009

700 Pieces
Lionfish

The Lionfish is nativ to the tropical region of the world. He hides in corals to wait for his victims. His venomous spikes are poisonous, but not deadly to humans.