Completed 31st August 2025

  

500 Pieces

Hamburg - by Bernd Natke

MOCA/Art333 

Completed 30th August 2025

 1000 Pieces

Mickey Mouse 

Trefl, Poland 

 

 

Development process of a tricky 700pcs jigsaw puzzle

 Last week I started assembling a 700pcs. jigsaw puzzle of a series I collected many years ago: 

National Geographic by MB

 The puzzle pieces are usually cut with the picture side facing up. This series is different: the print is on the back, resulting in a completely flat picture—without the typical cut lines. The disadvantage: the tabs become damaged with frequent use.

This one is called "Bengal tigress with cub" - Poster included with a geographical map of the distribution and original habitat of the Bengal tiger.

The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies. It ranks among the largest of wild cats. It is distributed from India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan to Southwestern China.

and here we go....

Completed 20th August 2025

500 Pieces

Icecream - by Anna Galitskaya

A german Illustrator living in Bavaria. Did you already recognized a typical German element on her icecream puzzle illustration?

Ravensburger Circle of Colors, 2023 

 

Completed 17th August 2025

 

500 Pieces

Cozy Bathroom - by Olga / ArtBeat Studios

Ravensburger with large pieces, 2021

 

Completed 16th August 2025

 

750 Pieces

Pnom Penh

 The capital of Cambodia with 2.3 million citizens. This building is the king's palace.

 Vintage Schmidt Spiel und Freizeit GmbH, approx. 1970+ (King Series)

Completed 10th August 2025

 

 1000 Pieces

Muscinae - Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

A jigsaw puzzle made by Good Loot, a manufacturer whose puzzles I tried for the first time: Good quality, excellent print, it was pure fun assembling this one!

 

These are the plants depicted

1. Thamnium alopecurum (Linné) = Thamnobryum alopecurum (Hedw.) Nieuwl. ex Gangulee
2. Eurhynchium praelongum (Linné) = Eurhynchium pumilum (Wilson) Schimp.
3. Polytrichum commune (Linné) = Polytrichum commune Hedw.
4. Sphagnum cymbifolium (Ehrhard) = Sphagnum palustre L.
5. Splachnum luteum (Linné) = Splachnum luteum Hedw.
6. Mnium undulatum (Hedwig) = Hypnum ligulatum F.Weber & D.Mohr
7. Rhodobryum roseum (Schreber) = Rhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.
8. Physcomitrium acuminatum (Schleich.) = Physcomitrium eurystomum Sendtn.
9. Physcomitrium ericetorum (Notaris) = Physcomitrium ericetorum (De Not.) Bruch & Schimp.
10. Physcomitrium sphaericum (Schwaeg.) = Physcomitrium sphaericum (C.F. Ludw.) Fürnr.
11. Sphagnum medium (Limpricht) = Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
12. Andreaea Thedenii (Schimper) = Andreaea obovata Thed.
13. Hypnum castrense (Linné) = Hypnum crista-castrensis Hedw.
14. Tetraplodon urceolatus (Schimper) = Tetraplodon urceolatus (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.
15. Dissodon Hornschuchii (Greville) = Tayloria hornschuchii (Grev. & Arn.) Broth.
16. Dissodon Froelichii (Hedwig) = Tayloria froelichiana (Hedw.) Mitt. ex Broth.

Development process of "Muscinae" by Ernst Haeckel, 1000 pcs. - completed

 I started assembling an amazing floral illustration by Good Loot Puzzles

The illustration is painted by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

 

Not easy; I needed some time to find my way across fifty shades of green

 

 

at least I found the missing pieces to assemble the border

 

 

Just one final assorting of the pending pieces and the gaps were filled  

Completed 3rd August 2025

1000 pieces 

Political World Map

 

Stiefel GmbH, Germany

Ravensburger , 2005 

 

 North- , Middle- and Southamerica

 

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 Africa

 

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 Europe

 

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 Asia

 

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Australia and Oceania

 

I visited an exhibition featuring treasures from the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

 

 At the Osthaus Museum Hagen 

founded 1902 by Karl Ernst Osthaus inside the Villa Folkwang

the museum exhibits its hidden treasures.

  

Fountain in the entrance hall of the historic villa

Sitzende, 1911/1912 

Seated Figure, by Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine (1887-1964)

The plaster model bought from a collector in  Düsseldorf; 

bronze casting authorized by the artist himself in 1956

 

Death and alive, 2002 by Micha Brendel.

Display case of glass, 12 filled cylinders, purchased from the artist

 

Death and alive are so-called Cryonicists, giving their bodies to be deepfrozen. Their hopes are to be brought back to life once there are cures for their illnesses. The display shall help those people to remember their past life. The artist questions the sense of being immortal.

 

 

Gene Pool (1992), given as a present by Dui Seid

 Dui Seid is the first American artist to address AIDS and human frailty.

 

 

White Field, 1964 - by Günter Uecker (1930-10.6.2025)

Kinetic art - even if the art doesn't move, but the viewer of art

 

Hans-Herrmann, 1974 - by Uwe Nickel (*1942)

Acrylic on canvas, purchased from the artist in 1974

 

On top: Shipboard, 1963 - Offset Lithography, purchsed from a gallery in 1968 

below:  Sunrise, 1965 (dto.)

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American pop artist. He rose to prominence in the 1960s through pieces which were inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style. Much of his work explores the relationship between fine art, advertising, and consumerism.

 

Liz, 1964 - by Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Silkscreen, purchased from a gallery in 1968

 

Picture XD 1949, 1949 - by Fritz Levedag (1899-1951)

Oil on canvas, purchased from the artist's estate

 

Composition, 1922/23 by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Oil on canvas

 Donation from the Donors' Association in 1953

 

Rot Gegeneinander, 1928 - by Oskar Schlemmer (1988-1943)

Oil and Tempera on Canvas

  Donation from the Donors' Association in 1958

 

Small Worlds X, 1922 - by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Drypoint etching

Purchased in the art trade in  1952

 

Inkpot, silver and glass, 1909 - by Henry van de Velde (1853-1957)

Purchased from the Estate Erika Schulenburg, 2000

 

 

Everyday Art

Since ages there's an ashtray in front of the glass entrance. Once you pay to enter the exhibition, you receive a sticky, coloured dot which may be attached to your clothes. When people leave the museum it seems to be a common gesture to stick the coloured dot to the ashtray. And this mostly ugly thing turns into a coloured piece of art created by a thousand (and more) people.

 

In fact I don't know if the ever replace or remove the dots, but whenever I am at the museum the dots seem to explode over the whole ashtray. 

 

This is the same ashtray in February 2020 - just before Covid-19 rushed in....