Without Lifting A Finger

A great day trip (always looking for a new one when I visit Hamburg). On the way there GPS took us through the Elbe Tunnel and through miles and miles of fruit trees. On the way back Siri preferred another route. Either way: Germany is under construction for the summer. *



I'm off to Michigan tomorrow (roots -- forever "unfinished" like Vincent's last painting), so I'm not going to chip away at Sebald's Grunewald till I get back. Hopefully. Remember: I said it was a work in progress. Anyway, game time is roughly an hour away and I thought I'd post some real action: something more akin to real life: terra firma. Right. Anyway. ***       Nota Bene : All in good fun. Gunter was "snipped" from his Wikipedia portrait; Jorge was cut from Flickr.  

Günther Uecker , also known as Guenther Uecker , (born 13 March 1930) is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist . Biography Uecker was born in Wendorf , Mecklenburg . [1] Uecker began his artistic education in 1949 when he took up studies at Wismar . He then went to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee and in 1955 to Düsseldorf , where he studied under Otto Pankok at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . In 1956 he began using nails in his art. Uecker met the group ZERO with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in 1960, artists who propagated a new beginning of art in opposition to the German Informel . He occupied himself with the medium of light, studied optical phenomena, series of structures and the realms of oscillation that actively integrate the viewer and enable him to influence the visual process by kinetic or manual interference. Uecker, Mack and Piene began working together in joint studios at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962 and installed a 'Salon de ...

        

Sorbs ( Upper Sorbian : Serbja ; Lower Sorbian : Serby ; also known as Wends , Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs ) are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia , a region on the territory of Germany and Poland . In Germany they live in the states of Brandenburg and Saxony . They speak the Sorbian languages ( Wendish , Lusatian ) - closely related [ 3 ] to Polish and Czech - officially recognized and protected as a minority language of Germany . They are predominantly Roman Catholics and Lutheran Protestants. [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs ]

I wish I had more time there. I wish I could've at least visited the Zwinger (I circled the outside and checked out the "courtyard" early in the morning -- looked in a widow and down a narrow gallery of shining porcelain). My wife found it a bit "dead" (and she would echo that sentiment when we moved on to Wroclaw and saw its bustling Old Town). We arrived in the afternoon and left late-morning the following day. *                                                                                                                 ...