Picasso - his first museum exhibition 1932, Kunsthaus Zurich

I have seen the exhibition of Picasso at the Kunsthaus Zurich. It is a kind of reconstruction of the great Picasso Zurich exhibition of 1932. Today, the images of Picasso no longer have the explosive power of 1932, when the exhibition was a scandal. Legendary was the psycho - pathologizing critique of CG. Jung on Picasso. In our exhibition "Paul Klee and the Medicine" we have already mentioned this case. The present exhibition is solid made, but we get no new insights on Picasso.

The reconstruction of the exhibition of 1932 could have been made more consistent. For example the same double hanging of the paintings, Photographic reproductions of the missing works from 1932, who are not shown in the present exhibition, etc.

Nevertheless, the exhibition is worth a look. Above all, the little documentary about the exhibition of 1932.
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all inclusive ($189): no rooming costs with a 3g amazon kindle

all inclusive: 3G Amazon Kindle Reader

With a 3G Amazon Kindle Reader, you have free Internet access in major metropolitan centers worldwide. Check wireless coverage.
Amazon do not explicitly mention this possibility of free surfing.
In the Kindle home menu, click on "experimental" and then on "lauch browser. Complex web pages can not be displayed, but for reading emails it's ok.
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"Sneezes in the Rain.": New Snub-Nosed [Photoshop] Monkey Discovered

image reconstructed by photoshop, based on a Yunnan snub-nosed monkey and the carcass of the newly discovered species. Photo: Thomas Geissmann


Congratulation Thomas (Geissmann)! 


The New Rhinopithecus Strykeri Species "Sneezes in the Rain."

While the species is new to science the local people know it well and claim that it is very easy to find when it is raining because the monkeys often get rainwater in their upturned noses causing them to sneeze. To avoid getting rainwater in their noses they spend rainy days sitting with their heads tucked between their knees.

Click here for more information: "American Journal of Primatology"

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The "No Impact Project": From Idle Accuser to Action Hero

Inflicting as Minimal a Burden as Possible on the Planet as "No Impact Man"

Man is wantonly plundering the Earth's precious resources and giving only trash and toxic waste in return. Feeling that he was party to this process, writer Colin Beavan took a stand: For 12 months he and his family in New York sought to live without polluting the environment – and experienced more time and happiness along with hard work. see:  "No Impact Man"

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"It is not about my father". A conversation with Richard von Weizsäcker on the role of his father as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during during the Nazi regime

Ernst von Weizsacker was sentenced to five years in prison for involvement in the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz

It is not about my father. What role  Ernst v. Weizäcker played in the Nazi extermination machine? A conversation with Richard von Weizsäcker on the peace efforts of his father as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, through its role in the expatriation of Thomas Mann and the then knowledge of the Holocaust. Read the FAZ Interview
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p.s. by the way: The place in Paris, were the Jews were loaded on the trains to the concentration camps was the place, where the new French National Library is located today. See Seebald / Austerlitz
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"The Seven Sermons to the Dead" (1916) by Carl Gustav Jung

Jung with his wife and children at Château-d'Oex, Switzerland, in 1918.

Today I was visiting Carl Gustav Jung in Château-d'Oex on my way to Vevey. We have talked about his new book, The Seven Sermons to the Dead. Jung gave me a copy of this limited edition.

In appreciation I handed him a bibliophile book from my Cranach Press.

"The Seven Sermons to the Dead", Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, might best be described as the "summary revelation of the Red Book". It is the only portion of the imaginative material contained in the Red Book manuscripts that C.G. Jung shared more or less publicly during his lifetime. To comprehend the importance of the Septem Sermones, one must understand the events behind the writing of the Red Book itself -- a task ultimately facilitated by the epochal publication of Jung's Red Book. See The Making of The Red Book on YouTube.
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koi fish

Koi varieties

I just fed my Japanese koi fish and carp. Winter is comming because the fish have almost no appetite. Nevertheless it is important that they get enough food for the winter so they survive. 

By the way: The word 'koi' comes from Japanese, simply meaning "carp." It includes both the dull grey fish and the brightly colored varieties. What are known as 'koi' in English are referred to more specifically as 'nishikigoi' in Japan (literally meaning 'brocaded carp'). In Japanese, 'koi' is a homophone for another word that means 'affection' or 'love'; koi are therefore symbols of love and friendship in Japan. An example of this is given in a short story by Mukoda Kuniko, "Koi-san".[8]

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Campaign against the Swiss Communists and Art Historian Konrad Farner (1903-1974)

Swiss Communist and Art Historian Konrad Farner (1903-1974)

Farner joined the Communist Party already when he was 20-year-old. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Farner and his family were victims of a political hate campaign by people of Thalwil (Zurich), after the Neue Zürcher Zeitung had published their address.

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Today I met Stefan Zweig in Rüschlikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Hotel Belvoir Rüschlikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Stefan Zweig and Frederike Winternitzseiner

Today I met the Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942) in his Swiss exile in Rüschlikon. With his partner Friderike of Winternitzseiner we had lunch at the Hotel Belvoir. Mainly we were talking about his new novel Jeremiah (1917) The drama Jeremiah appears 1918. During WW1 Zweig was engaged in cultural propaganda of Austria and Germany Zweig could then leave in November 1917 military service for 2 months. During this time he held talks in Switzerland. In Switzerland acquaintanceship with Romain Rolland, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce and Ferruccio Busoni. 27. February 1918 World premiere of the play Jeremiah at Schauspielhaus in Zurich. As a correspondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse in Switzerland, Zweig went in March 1917 to Rüschlikon for a retreat and stayed there until the end of the ware.
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German can be a great language! The new Goethe Movie

Miriam Stein as Lotte Buff

Saturday night, I watched the new film on Goethe.

A pleasant costume film with Alexander Fehling as Goethe and the young Swiss Miriam Stein as Lotte Buff. While Moritz Bleibtreu performance as Albert Kestner was unconvincing. However, I can recommend the movie. Nevertheless. German can be a great language! See

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"good breasts and bad breasts": My advice to overprotecting parents

Breastfeeding mother, Marguerite Gerard (1761-1837) 

With my godchild, i observed, that the parents do no like to entrust the child to me. Because they fear that I mess up their education standards. But this is a mistake regarding to the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein: "In her object relations theory, Klein argues that 'the earliest experiences of the infant are split between wholly good ones with "good" objects [good breast] wholly bad experiences with "bad" objects' [bad breast] [12], as children struggle to integrate the two primary drives, love and hate, into constructive social interaction. An important step in childhood development is the gradual depolarization of these two drives." Therefore, the contact to different people (good & bad breasts) is very important for a child!

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"Shell" houses by ARTechnic architects

My scouts from Japan have made me aware of The Villa, "Shell" built by the Japanese architectural team ARTechnic in Kitasaku, Japan. Great architecture! Isn’t it? My friend Peter Behrens would have liked it. Best HGK

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Obama's Wars: The anatomy of U.S. military power

The strategy expert Prof. Dr. Albert A. Stahel of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich made me aware of the book “Obama's Wars” by Bob Woodward.

As former head of the German cultural propaganda in Switzerland during World War I, my interest in military affairs still remains.

In his latest book the Watergate journalist Bob Woodward gives a very interesting inside view of the military power of USA. As a text example, I can recommend to read a free chapter on Kindle.

Although the United States as a world power is sometimes disturbing, I'm not naive enough to believe that the U.S. is the most reliable partner for Europe.

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Political effigy of Ariel Sharon

Ariel SharonNoam Braslavsky | Solo Exhibition, The Kishon Gallery21 Oct - 19 Nov 2010

A great work and a reminder of the tradition of effigies.
Since the middle Ages, an own genre of votive offering was established, which were named in analogy to the ancestral portraits in the Roman cult of the dead effigy.

These were body sculptures made of wax, wood or leather and which were provided with clothing of the deceased for the funeral ceremonies, for taking the place of the deceased.

However, after the ritual funerary, the effigies lost its magical function as a “persona ficta” (Ernst H. Kantorowicz). So the useless effigy were then parked carelessly somewhere in a storeroom.

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eBooks: World Literature on your Fingertips

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Who would have thought that I can still participate in this revolution.
Access to world literature and selected books in electronic form.
Although digital books never reach the aesthetic and tactile quality of my printed books of the Cranach Press, the quality of digital copies is sufficient to read while traveling or for research purposes.
Mainly I download my ebooks free from “Project Gutenberg "or "The Internet Archive". Sometimes I by the book at Amazon. PDF texts I can read with my Kindle too.
Recently libraries such as the Central Library Zurich offer electronic books for downloading. You can download the files in PDF or Kindle format. So far I downloaded the book in PDF format and I made afterwards a paper copy. Today I can just drop the data on my Kindle.
Check it out.
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"LA FABRIQUE DES IMAGES", [ethnocentristic] exposition d’anthropologie du musée du quai Branly, Paris

Fully perplex, I left yesterday, the ethnological Musée du quai Branly (by J. Nouvel).

I could not believe my eyes, when I saw the new temporary exhibition with the title "The Making of Images". 

To quote the Website of the exhibition: „After Qu’est-ce qu’un corps ? and Planète métisse, the 3rd major anthropology exhibition of the musée du quai Branly proposes the discovery of a "making of images" spanning 5 continents to the public. With 160 works and objects, the exhibition deciphers large artistic and material productions of humanity to reveal what is not seen directly in an image.“

While in the first section, the visitors was served with the usual ethological objects, such as masks and sculptures, the visitors received suddenly a blow from a kind of “ethnocentric club”, when entering the second section with the title “AN OBJECTIVE WORLD”: NATURALISM:

It is as if the curator (Philippe Casella) holds a remote control in his hands and is zapping from one TV channel to another: Dutch painting from the XVII, with the representation of money, Jules Mares bird flight, one of Droz android’s or Descartes facial reconstruction. Because of that, all the other ethnological artifacts even those from the entire museum are now scaled and rated with reference to the exhibits of the western modern world in this section. The blow was even more violent, because it was believed, that the Musée du quai Branly is a refuge of tolerance and intercultural dialogue. This ethnocentristic view is all the more astonishing because the curator of the exhibition, Philippe Casella, is officially posing as a student of Claude Levi Strauss. 

From the blow, I could not recover, so I had to leave the Museum. In passing the last two sections, I thought I still noticed some contemporary sandpaintigs of Indigenous Australians, Katschina Dolls and cheap-looking copies of “Western” illustrations of anatomy.

In hasty steps, I left the museum without a looking back, so I would not freeze to a pillar of salt.

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