An external blog that shows some further artworks
On my written works and me as an author, writer and poet.
Annotation: I also write on other topics and other kinds of texts as I am interested in lots of topics like architecture (I have studied it at university and I am passionate about it ever since then, so for lots of years), economics (Let me tell you: I know lots about it), (...), philosophy (My philosophy journey started in school (Humanistisches Gymnasium), aged 14 or 15 or so, with the ancient Greek early Pre-Socratic philosophers.
I still have from these days of school and one of its Old Greek lessons a sheet of paper with seven quotes of the (in German) so called Sieben Weisen (English: Seven Sages of Greece or Seven Wise Men, ancient philosophers) in Old Greek language well-preserved and close to me near my table.
"My kind of philosophy" related: Now I am for years into the Stoics.
I like their timeless thoughts.
I am into many more fields of interests.
I am currently writing Zartes, Sinnliches, Eleganz, Natur, Zeit and some other books.
Zartes is a text collection with Zärtlichkeit as its topic. Sinnliches is about Sinnlichkeit. Natur feels nature. Its texts are in German language, with most unpublished.
For the exclusive version: Books to feel paper with beautiful pages, wonderful book covers and amazing bindings will follow. Yes, real ones. Those with paper. And yes - With bindings. Leather. Sounds old? - Yes. That's great.
If you can not read German, learn it.
I like to learn languages as learning is fun.
I like computer programming and coding languages and spoken languages.
I speak German, English, some basics of Italian (I improve my related skills as Italian is a wonderful language) and as I am interested in ancient times (and history in general) I can tell you that I also know classical Latin and - (if you have read top down) no surprise as mentioned - Old Greek - both still well. I try to learn French as it is beautiful. In school days, a while ago, I could decide between French and Old Greek and took the latter as there are more places to learn French (even most easily in France) and as I - as mentioned - like history and the ancient times. And I can read Spanish: If I read books in Spanish, I can understand what sentences are about.
Further language related skills will follow as I like to learn languages.
I like to write in German.
German is a beautiful language as it has a wonderful grammar and a rich treasury of words. Therefore I personally like it far more than English which lacks of lots of words, related detailed expressions, and seems to oversimplify.
So: If you like to communicate - Let's gor for English or German
(If your mother tongue is English: Let's go for German so that you can learn)
- Even though other languages could also be interesting
(for me to learn and/or practise and/or improve related skills).
I like to read
and
I read a lot.
I like books.
I like libraries.
I sometimes switch to some Latin and Old Greek written texts to often refresh my related skills, when not reading a literature, cultural heritage, history or economics related text.
I collect impressions. I collect quotes. In a digital way I collect quotes here:
Even though their other related text parts and also a singular quotes' person and its historical time related context is important.
Same with each quote's book or complete text.
Here is my Pinterest board collection that - the name says it all - collects some great works in art, fashion, architecture, design, interior design, furniture design, car design, graphics, advertisement, (...)
and also creative works done by others in an ongoing process.
Annotation: I could easily put my own works in between, but I don't want to do so in the below mentioned Pinterest board.
Some (like a few seen in the Architects board) are just put for fun in between.
As it is - at least in my Pinterest time scale - a legacy profile, I may sort in some time in future some early pins out.
Why I like to collect?
- It is a passion.
But more: As I myself like to create great work I like to see great work.
I don't want to create the same. So I don't reinvent the wheel. I don't want to do the exact same. Therefore I have to see what is already done.
It is important to see great work to refine one's own style and taste to better oneself as designer and creator. It helped me as an artist and designer and also as an author and writer: To see and reflect lots of good architecture, well done design, well designed fashion, aesthetically well set style, (...) - and of course nature as nature is best done.
Nature is best designed.
The beauty of nature is above all.
Nature is God.
So God is everywhere.
God is the best architect, artist and designer.
Earthly I have seen and reflected lots of well done design over a long period of time.
Daily. And I still do it and I will do it. And said: I have lots of decades in front of me.
But: For lots of gone by years: Every day I have seen lots of great works.
Done easy: In a digital way.
But I also like to have real impressions as they evoke more feelings.
I like to see. I like to hear. I like to taste. I like to smell. I like to feel.
I like to pause. I like to watch. I like to think. I like to reflect.
I like to sketch. I like to take notes. I like to write. I like to photograph. I like to draw.
I like to design. I like to create.
Every morning after waking up, also often in the night and sometimes during the day I am thankful for having the abilities to see, to hear, to smell, to taste, to feel.
In prayers I often reflect these and I am often thankful for these.
I could not create each of these the way I can use them every day.
To reflect these abilities as great presents done often help me stay humble every day.
So I am very thankful for having these abilities given by nature.
I like to collect impressions.
I could write lots of books on the good architecture I have seen in real. I could write books on the beautiful places I have seen, the materials I have felt and the good design I have reflected in real.
I write a book that reflects nature.
That are also aspects (of many) why I often think global on purpose:
To see more.
To reflect more.
As I am into lifelong learning and learning is a huge passion of me: To learn more.
To better myself.
There are lots of beautiful places in the world.
If you think of lots of known artists and designers and also known ones of the past and reflect their habits - You will see: Lots of them are (or were) collectors.
A spontaneously mentioned example: Karl Lagerfeld.
But also Giorgio Armani is, Yves Saint Laurent was. Etc
Lots of great artists had made lots of sketches.
Leonardo da Vinci as well known example.
Written "had" as here mentioned I like lots of old artists of a time before me. In my own thoughts I am not really much into contemporary art.
My view on time is a long long-term one: I often reflect a long time.
I like - some, but not all - artworks of Michelangelo, Giovanni Boldini, Guy Rose, Auguste Rodin, Gustave Courbet and lots of others from the past. The mentioned artists are well known. But lots of the artists and artworks I like are not well known. I could write a book or even lots of books on artists I like and why I like which of their artwork. (Logged in) While scrolling through my Twitter Likes you will - I am sure - encounter great artworks you have never seen.
I like to reflect the whole history of art, of architecture, of design and more. Built. Unbuilt. Imagined. As physical model. Drawn. Painted. Written. Lots or architecture and design is "just" shown in artworks, but not anymore out there or has never been so.
And - again mentioned - nature: I like to see nature as it is the best.
Nature is the best.
No wonder it is shown in many artworks: You see it in artworks of Albert Bierstadt, Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Monet, Frederic Edwin Church, George Inness, Isaac Levitan, John Constable, Robert Lewis Reid, Theodore Rousseau, Tom Roberts, Willard Metcalf and many more.
Nature is.
Out there.
And in lots of great works of art.
Sketching and taking notes help to remember.
I take lots of notes and I sketch a lot.
Most time I have paper and a pencial or a pen with me.
I like analogue sketching. But I also take lots of digital notes on my handy in note apps and via lists on my computer etc - All well named and well organized.
I could write a book on how I take notes and I also could take my notes as basis to write or draw lots of books.
Pinterest is also a bit like taking (visual) notes. Same as Twitter is for me.
So to keep it short: If you like to see a bit of what I like related to creative visual topics,
here you go:
Do you like fashion? Women's fashion?
(Everyone loves women and their fashion)
- Don't be shy, just follow:
Pinterest Great Collection
- Fashion for Women
Annotation: I just collect the pictures via re-pinning them. I know it from my other Social Media accounts: Uploading needs some time. So here I don't upload pictures at this one account. I also don't put the texts below these or set links to pages. The texts may be written by its original posters or by AI of Pinterest. This said as I often would have put other texts and - often better - descriptions to some pictures.
I also experience this related to my own design and artworks related one:
I can code and program.
I like it. It's fun.
As I like to code and program
and I know that there are lots of cool projects out there:
I will also collaborate on cool projects worldwide.
At least a bit in my free time.
Or I start an own Open Source project in future
even though I know its code management,
its documentation updates, integration checks etc need time...
- And that's why I haven't published code on Github yet.
But I like Github:
Here is me as a person on Github:
Annotation: It will get more published code content.
I am Europe based.
I like the cultural heritage of Europe and the beauty of Europe in general. I like Austria and its being "begnadet für das Schöne", Swiss excellence (like the one in its detail oriented world class craftmanship), the beauty of Italy, Italian Dolce Vita and also its Italianness, the French Art de Vivre and French elegance, the British way of keeping a certain sense for tradition, (...) - I could mention all countries of Europe and describe my feelings related to each one in more detail.
Europe is beautiful, stunning, somehow magical.
It is nice to feel Europe.
I could write lots of books that describe the beauty of Europe.
But as the whole world is beautiful and I like to travel I also see myself as a cosmopolitan and a citizen of the world.
I like the whole world.
More: I love the whole world.
Every country and every place has beauty as the whole world is beautiful.
The nature of the whole world is beautiful.
There are lots of beautiful places in the world
and one can always add beauty to these places and the world.
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Some texts that are like personal blog posts added:
My 7 core principles: The 7 values I hold as important
Thoughts on my time horizon:
How I see (my) time. How I see my work in relation to time
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Here is a link to Good Thoughts and its good thoughts:
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Hans