Completed 4th - 6th July 2025 (26th Megamarathon)

Oh yes, it was Megamarathon again. The 26th edition with approx. 71 participants and more than 266k pieces assembled all together. These were mine :-)

left: "African Animals" 

right: "Dinosaurs"  

Crocodile Creek, each 150 pcs. 

 

top left: Paul Heusenstamm (USA, 1949) "Monarch Butterfly Tree"  

top middle: FL Wright "Oak Park Studio Skylight", 1897

top right: Auguste Renoir "Woman with a cat" 

below left: Jeanelle Dimmett (USA, 1990) "Cupcakes, 2013"

below middle: Christopher Marley "Butterfly Mosaic" aka Limited Lycaenidae Mosaic

below right: Georges Dorival (F, 1879-1968) "Venise, 1921"

top left: Robert Bissell "The Dance", 2003

top right: Tom Thomson (Canada, 1877-1917) "Marguerites, Wood Lilies and Vetch" 

below left: Beth Van Hoesen "Bugs", 1985 

below right: Viktor Schreckengost (USA, 1906-2008, watercolorist) "Guerrero Still Life XVIII" 

left: Dan May "Ripple", 2011

right: Horace Taylor (UK, 1881-1934) "Brightest London is Best Reached by Under ground", 1924

 

top left: Edward Gorey (USA, 1925-2000) "Bibliophile with Cats" 

top middle: Eric Kennington (UK, 1888-1960) Parachutes, 1941

top right: Darsie Japp (1888-1973) "Regimental Band",  1918

below left: F. Gregory Brown (British, 1887-1941) "Kew Gardens", 1933

below middle: Edward Gorey "Wrap it up" 

below right: Tony Fitzpatrick (USA, 1958) "Bird for the Green Stars", 2014 

top left: Moll Hashimoto (1951) "Cedar Waxwing", 2012

top right: Charley Harper "Red-Eyed Vireos" 

below left: Kathy DeZarn Beynette "Owls and pussycats" 

below right: Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) "Floral Passage", 2007 

Ravensburger Exit Puzzles, 99 Pieces each

 

top left: Charles Harper "Under the Sweetgum Tree" 

top right: "Hillside Theater Curtain" 

middle left: Charles Rennie Macintosh "Blue & Pink Tobacco Flowers" 

middle right: FL Wright "Old fashioned Window" 

below left: Die Harper "Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt" 

below right: FL Wright "Saguaro Form and Cactus Flowers" 

 Four Visual Statements with 99 pieces each

and this one!

1000 Pieces

Arc-en-ciel

(C) Alize Group 

 

 

 

Finished 10th October 2019 ** Renoirs flowerbouquet

1000 Pieces

Bunch of flowers

Original title: "Fleurs dans un pot en terre cuite" 

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Oil on canvas, 64,8×54,3 cm, approx. 1869

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Picture by Schapowalow/Plessner

A Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle of 1983

 

Finished 18th August 2018

 140 Pieces

One World Observatory

Pigment & Hue, 2016

Small pieces - total size of completed jigsaw puzzles is 5x7 inches

60 Pieces

Fraktal 03

A wooden Art Puzzle made in Switzerland

 

 100 Pieces

Camille Pissarro: Place du Carrousel, Paris, 1900

Grafika Kids Art Collection

 100 Pieces

Auguste Renoir: Pont Neuf, Paris, 1872

Grafika Kids Art Collection

140 Pieces

Mexican Striped Owl (Pseudoscops clamator aka Asio Clamator)

Raptor Foundation

It is 30–38 centimetres (12–15 in) long and weighs from 320 to 546 g (11.3 to 19.3 oz). The striped owl has a very large range and its population is believed to be stable. It faces no particular threats, and as a result, the IUCN has listed it as being of "Least Concern".

I visited an exhibition of "Hundertwasser" today

 At the Osthaus Museum Hagen 

founded 1902 by Karl Ernst Osthaus inside the Villa Folkwang

The new antrance, decorated for the exhibition of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)

with reflections of the round hall of the Osthaus Museum:

Unfortunately it was forbidden to take photos of the artwork: paintings and lithographies, tapestries, architectural models, stamps, phonecards and books. I really like the atmosphere created by blue and green walls...

Some years ago (2009) I visited a house built on plans of F. Hundertwasser and opened in 2005:

I was happy to see this model at the exhibition, too.

Photo by A. Koslowski

Okay, at the end of the main exhibition I strolled through the Osthaus Museum. I know its interior since I was a young girl. My grandfather took me there from time to time.

"Gaberndorf" by Lionel Feininger (1921)

and a view into the entrance hall

 

 

A Painting by Auguste Renoir: "View from Haut-Cagnes-sur-Mer" (1903)

In the museumshop I found a children's book with stickers

to build my own Hundertwasser-House and City

If I am not allowed to be creative with my camera, I'll be creative with this :-)

Finished 5th November 2012

1000 Pieces

Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881

Auguste Renoir

Oil on Canvas, 130 cm × 173 cm

Philipps Collection, Washington D.C.

More information about this stunning painting from one of the most famous french impressionists.

I already assembled this magnificent Ravensburger Puzzle in February 2009 (3.2.2009) but had fun to solve it again. This time, it took only 3-4 days (which means a few hours in the evening) - not 2 weeks :-)



 &

 140 Pieces

"The Victory, the Mary Rose and the Warrior"

A Wentworth Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle including nautical Whimsies

Finished 19th October 2010

1000 Pieces

"Young Girls at the Piano" by Auguste Renoir

Finished 11th June 2010

4x 108 pieces

"Renoir"

Four masterpieces
each 22,5 cm diametre

Finished 3rd Feb. 2009

*1000 pieces*

Le déjeuner des canotiers
 Renoir, 1880-1881

After paddling in the "gondola" I had to see less water and less of a brownish-honey-yellow-mixture. I picked an old puzzle I never finished before and decided to solve some skin colours on white background. Tricky!