Finished 30th November 2014

500 Pieces

Cat Gods - by Lyn Gianni

SunsOut, USA

Finished 24th November 2014

200 Pieces

Lake in Dolomites

a vintage MB 'Pocket Puzzle' dated 1981

Finished 23rd November 2014

 1000 Pieces

Imperial Hotel Peacock Carpet

by Frank Lloyd Wright

square-sized jigsaw puzzle made by Pomegranate

with some most interesting informations about the design of these carpet.

Some more news can be found at wikipedia

Finished 21st November 2014

 

150 Pieces

Doodlecats - by Jon Burgerman

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 each 75 Pieces

left: Rosina Wachtmeister

right: Tinga Tinga (Giraffe + Fishes)

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eight Wentworth Wooden Miniature Jigsaw Puzzles: 40 Pieces each

 Titanic Poster - by Montaigne Black

Yuletide  - by Rachel Arbuckle

 The Feast of the Rose Garland - Albrecht Dürer

 Western Blizzard - by Philip D. Hawkins

 Merry Christmas - Pitopia/Racamani

 Christmas Dinner - by Julia Rigby

 Old Paris - by Howard Robinson

 Kentish Lavender Sunset - by Thomas Alexander

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100 Pieces

ArtistCat - by B. 'Hap' Kliban (1935-1990)

A Pomegranate Jigsaw Puzzle

Jigsaw Puzzle Connections

Thank you to Linda Richard from 'Jigsaw Puzzle Connections' 

for a wonderful article about my collection

on the JPC-Website

(Link opens in a new window)

I'll hold the webpage ready in the list that you may find 

on the right side of this blog at

"Links about puzzles" :-)

Finished 19th November 2014

 500 Pieces

"Leonilla zu Sayn-Wittgenstein"

her complete name is  Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn

painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalterin 1843

The Painting can be studied at the J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

It measures 2,12 x 1,42 m

Can you imagine that this jigsaw puzzle is made of wood?

The Manufacturer fixed a piece of wood on the box to assure that it is really made of plywood

The surface is glossy - it wasn't easy to take a good photo of the beauty

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 300 Pieces

York, Great Britain

A vintage jigsaw puzzle (maybe late 1970ies?) made by Waddingtons, GB

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75 Pieces

Zebras - Tinga Tinga

Made by HEYE, Germany

Finished 18th November 2014

 500 Pieces

Vienna - another of these funny comic-adaptions of Bernd Natke.

Created for Art333

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 100 Pieces

Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)

by Molly Hashimoto, US

Just take a look at her wonderful paintings on the official artist's website

 

Finished 16th November 2014

 1500 Pieces

Vieux Plan de Paris

crée par Olivier Truschet & Germain Hoyau

Finished 16th November 2014

300 Pieces

Still-Life with Apples and Oranges

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Finished 13th November 2014

500 Pieces

Multicoloured night owls

A Ravensburger Jigsaw Puzzle made of Cardboard... a very nice finger exercise ^^

Finished 9th November 2014

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the German Wall today 

and the consecutive German Reunification in 1990!

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 500 Pieces

Ludicrous Library - by Colin Thompson

Signed 1998

Ravensburger, GB, 2011

some of many cute details:

 books with legs and claws

 the librarian

 maybe escaped from a hidden story?

 inspired by M.C. Escher, the perspective varies from time to time

 spooky creatures

 check the cat - and the ladder - and the cat again... :-)

 hang out with friends

 a characteristic of Colin Thompson: insights and worlds behind hidden doors. 

He invites you to step in and discover your imagination.

Last but not least: the Café Max - another characteristic of the Artist. You can find a Café Max hidden inside almost all paintings of Colin Thompson :-)

 

 

Finished 1st November 2014

During a 'marathon' I managed to assemble this picture with 2 hours and 25 minutes....

500 (-2) Pieces

Ruhpolding, Bavaria, Germany

47° 45′ N, 12° 38′  E

A MB-jigsaw puzzle dated 1985. I love this subtle kind of watercolour painting.

I already assembled Brunswick and Bad Neuenahr

Finished 1st November 2014

1000 Pieces

Astronomical watch, Townhall, Ulm (Germany)

Finished 31st October 2014

 12 Pieces 

Block-Puzzle with six famous paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

Courtesy: Art Resource, New York

Designed by Susan Bishop

Pomegranate, USA (printed in China)

on top: Spring, painted 1573

Louvre, Paris

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Flora, painted 1591

 private Collection

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 Summer, painted 1563/1572

Vienna, Museum of Art

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 Winter, painted 1563

Louvre, Paris

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 Autumn, painted 1573

Louvre, Paris

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Vertumnus (Emperor Rudolf II.), painted 1590/1591

Skokloster Castle, Sweden

Vertumnus was the leading god in the etrsucan mythology - equalized to the holy roman emperor Rudolf II. (1552-1612). 

If you want to see more (all) of his stunning paintings, please visit this website