Finished 31st March 2015

300 Pieces

Neuschwanstein Castle

by Edmund Nägele (Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society)

Finished 29th March 2015

150 Pieces

"Thorington Mill" - by Clive Madgwick

Reproduced by courtesy of Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Son.

"Clive Madgwick is established as one of Britain's most popular and commercially successful artists. His clear, detailed style, coupled with an ability to distil the essence of the English landscape, provided him with a strong market for his original paintings and prints. Something which set Clive Madgwick apart from many landscape artists was his desire to represent the landscape in reality, rather than as it was. Consequently, whilst many painters depicted long-since passed scenes of horse-drawn carts at harvest time, Clive Madgwick preferred to turn his back on sentimentality and paint a tractor ploughing a field.

Born and bred in the Esher area of Surrey, Clive Madgwick's whole family was medical and, after attending Downs End School and Epsom College, he went on to study dental medicine at Guy's Hospital. The surprise to the family came when he turned from dentistry and became an artist. Wholly self-taught, he turned to painting full-time during his early middle age and consequently pursued a highly successful new career."

(source)

 An Optimago handcut wooden Jigsaw puzzle

Optimago is a british manufacturer who started producing in 1979 until 2005.

Finished 28th March 2015

 300 Pieces

Crazy World by Gerold Como

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 300 Pieces

Cruise by Gerold Como

with some funny cruise-entertainment

Finished 27th March 2015

 220 Pieces

Vedute di Firenze

Impronte Edizione, Italy

detail: Santa Maria del Fiore (built 15th c.)

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 220 Pieces

The Bus (1925) by Frida Kahlo (detail)

Learn more about and see the whole painting on www.fridakahlo.org

Impronte Edizione, Italy

Finished 27th March 2015

 1000 Pieces

 

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701

Illustrations from the Haynes Manual (Deman Media Ltd., 2013)

 

 

 

 

For the passengers of flight 4U9525

There are no words to express my deep sorrow.

All details revealed about this act of horror bring me to tears.

My thoughts and prayers are with all passengers, 

with the pilot and flight crew of 4U9525.

 

(Photo taken by Amalia Koslowski in Feb.2014)

There will never be enough time for the families and friends 

to come over this tragedy.

It could have been you.

It could have been someone we know.

This makes me sad.

Finished 22nd March 2015 - new Curiosi! - updated 24th March 2015

 46 Pieces

Fishing boats at Saint-Maries

Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, 1888

Original Artwork at the Van Gogh-Museum, Amsterdam

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41 Pieces

Shimmer (2014)

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 46 Pieces

Blue Horse - by Franz Marc

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 41 pieces

"Q03-3" (Shimmer 2014)

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46 Pieces

"Q02-1" (Ornament 2014)

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49 Pieces

Owl (Animal 2014)

Leaflet attached to each box:

 

Finished 21st March 2015

 1000 Pieces

East Coast

National Railway Museum (www.nrm.org.uk)

Commissioned by Railway Companies in the post-war years, posters were designed to tempt passengers to travel and explore British Towns and coastal resorts.

 Butlin's is located at Skegness

assembled during a marathon within 6,5 hours

Finished 21st March 2015

100 Pieces

Silver Birches

Painted 1915/1916

Oil on canvas, 56x41 cm, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1968

by Tom Thomson (Canada, 1877-1917)

The Artist painted prolifically while working as a guide and ranger in Ontarios Algonquin Park

His paintings captured the beauty of the Canadian Wilderness.

A Pomegranate Jigsaw Puzzle.

The Manufacturer added two blue borders to get close to the proportion of it's punch cutter.

Penumbral solar eclipse 20-03-2015 (Germany)

The Day started with dense fog (6:45 CET)

 

 Never look at the sun without special sunglasses!

The moon starts to hide the sun at 9:48 CET

9:50 - 11:28 CET

Photos taken with the same camera angle and without adapting them. 

We had about 76% coverage of the sun and it went darker like on a very cloudy day.

In fact, it was a bit colder during the solar eclipse, too, and the birds stopped peeping and singing.

Here comes the sun

The next solar eclipse in Germany will take place in the 2080ies...

I guess I'll not witness this event, but the next penumbral solar eclipse will be in 2022

all photographies by Amalia Koslowski, 2015

The Sun, September 2014 (AK, 2014)

 

 The Moon, April 2014 (AK, 2014)

Wanna see more? Please visit the total eclipse of the moon,  (Sept. 2015) too :-)