Finished 31st January 2010

1000 Pieces

Solar de Mateus, Portugal

The villa was built in 18th century by the italian architect Nasoni. Owner of Solar de Mateus is Antonio Mourao. The facade of the villa reflects in a 2000m3 swanlake.

Finished 30th January 2010

1000 Pieces
Linderhof Palace, Bavaria

Built 1869-1889 by king Louis II. of Bavaria and finished during his lifetime. It is the smallest palace built by the king and he loved it the most. He spent lots of time there.

Linderhof is located near Oberammergau in southern Bavaria.

Finished 29th January 2010

1000 Pieces
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Saguaro Glass Design"
- Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers. Backlit art glass mural adapted in 1973 from a.c. 1927 design by Frank Lloyd Wright -

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) invented a new architecture in the U.S. - he was inspired by native living concentrated on the fireplace as a meeting place. He was a multi-genius and worked as architect, editor, art-dealer and designer.

F.L.Wright created Saguaro in 1927/28 as one of a series of unpublished magazine covers.
Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is a cactus that may grow up to 20 m.
"Saguaro", the art glass mural, now decorates the lobby of the Arizona Biltmore resort in Phoenix.

Finished 25th January 2010

1000 Pieces
Liberty Statue

The statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. by France in 1886, ten years after 100th birthday of Independance.
The Crown is made of seven rays and twentyfive windows. The rays symbolize the seven seas and continents of the world and the 25 windows represent the 25 precious stones.

UNSOLVED JIGSAW PUZZLES - updated 4th July2016

June 2016

9 missing pieces are too much. Please find the documentary here

October 2014

it's about the San Marino - 4 pieces missing. No fun anymore....

November 2013

 My challenge: an amazing painting by Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1953)

it's called "The Report" and shows Queen Elizabeth I and - maybe - Francis Drake or 

Walter Raleigh. I need to find out  more.

update: no need to find out more - it has the poorest quality I ever had to assemble....  and therefore I stopped assembling it!

and instead of throwing it in the trashcan ....

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August 2013

 Today I decided to start assembling these two Pipers but after a short while
I recognized that all  yellow pieces of the kilt are missing. Poor Piper...

I stopped to laugh a while about an almost naked Piper and decided to find out wether the whole kilt is missing. Then I realized that more than a half of the frame is missing, too, and now this poor jigsaw puzzle is where it belongs: the rubbish bin.

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 June 2011

I bought this one on ebay once and started to assemble it in May/June 2011. Once realized that there are 4 pieces missing, I didn't want to assemble the black frame - therefore I placed the picture here....

Celestial Map - 2000 -4 pieces

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April 2011

La Révolution francaise
MB (1989), 1000 Pieces
started: 19th April 2011
last piece set: 23rd April 2011

only whitecoloured pieces left = no fun

update June 2013: it is still on my table...
update End of August 2013: I finally got rid of it as I didn't managed 
to assemble more pieces....

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December 2010

 Chateau d'Amboise

Just from the start I realized that two pieces were missing from the frame = no fun


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January 2010

Angel of Death by Victoria Francés
Educa, 1000 Pieces
started: January 2010
last piece set February 2010

no idea why these missing pieces are of no fun for me... can't get any closer contact to this picture

July 2011: will now be solved by somebody else...

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June 2009

A cup of coffee passed my way. No idea where he came from, but accidentially he was there (in fact, he was there all the time - I hope.) Anyway: the coffee decided to swap out of the cup covering St. Peter:

I actually added some more of the red sky pieces around the obelisc and decided to finish it today. So why must he destroy this wonderful jigsaw?? He did it to enrage me, I guess? Maybe he felt a little bored and needed some action: me trying to absorp him with some meters of kitchen tissues. And time was running on the third marathon.

After cleaning up all the mess, I turned back to the wild horses.
And solved them, as well as the Abbey Maulbronn.
And went to bed.

In the morning I saw this:
and some more pieces glued to the table. Most of the pieces were soaked and dried and didn't fit any more. That was when I decided to ....

I'm so sorry!!!

Finished 22nd January 2010

1000 Pieces
"The Comtesse"

unfortunately 2 pieces are missing....

Finished 7th January 2010

1000 Teile
"View from Santorin" by Sam Park

my vertical "triptych"

Finished 5th January 2010

1000 Pieces
"Venice" by Sung Sam Park

The town is called "La Serenissima" - an augmentation of the word "highness". The historical center, Venice and its lagunas are part of the world cultural heritage (UNESCO).

Finished 2nd January 2010

300 Pieces
Shaped Puzzle
"Aladar" - main character of the 39th animated feature of Disney, named "Dinosaur" (2000)

This is an Iguanodon, a type of dinosaur that first has been discovered in 1822. It weighed 3,5 tons and was 10 m long.

Finished 1st January 2010

1000 Pieces

Amalfi Coast, Italy

Amalfi was founded by the romans and was conquered by the byzantine emperor as well as the langobards. Amalfi is named to be the oldest italian sea-republic and had its high period within the 10th and 11th century.

The artist Sung Sam Park was born 1949 in Seoul, Korea. In 1973 he traveled to Paris to bring his studies to perfection. His paintings are inspired by french impressionists. Sam Park evolved hist ideal of Impressionism and Hyperrealism. In 1994 he came to the USA where he lives now.

There are four pictures edited as jigsaw puzzles: Santorin, Paris, Venice and the Coast of Amalfi. In fact, I love this light art and will solve all of them. (Santorin, Venice and Amalfi-Jigsaw Puzzles are birthdaygifts)