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Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better. –Albert Einstein.
The Desert Garden is one of the world's largest and oldest collections of cacti, succulents and other desert plants, collected from throughout the world. It contains plants from extreme environments, many of which were acquired by Henry E. Huntington and William Hertrich (the first garden curator) in trips taken to several countries in North, Central and South America. One of the Huntington's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants largely unknown and unappreciated in the beginning of the 1900s. Containing a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more than 5,000 species in the 10 acre (4 ha) garden
Desert garden from Huntington Library and botanic gardens. San Marino. California.
High above Hjørundfjord at Sunnmore. The fjord runs like a giant canyon through mountainous alps. This is one of the world's most spectacular fjord, according to one of the visitors. In the end of the fjord you will find Øye. Øye has been a central location for the early tourist traffic to Norway since the end of the 1800s and first 1900s. This is a good starting point for mountain hikes. Here you will also find the famous hotel Union. The hotel stands in its former splendor and looks like it did when it opened in 1891. A few years ago the hotel got the award «One of the worlds 12 most exciting hotels».
Hoch über dem Hjørundfjord bei Sunnmore. Der Fjord verläuft wie eine riesige Schlucht durch bergige Alpen. Laut einem der Besucher ist dies einer der spektakulärsten Fjorde der Welt. Am Ende des Fjords finden Sie Øye. Øye war seit Ende des 18. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts ein zentraler Ort für den frühen Touristenverkehr nach Norwegen. Dies ist ein guter Ausgangspunkt für Bergwanderungen. Hier finden Sie auch das berühmte Hotel Union. Das Hotel erstrahlt in seiner alten Pracht und sieht aus wie bei seiner Eröffnung im Jahr 1891. Vor einigen Jahren erhielt das Hotel die Auszeichnung «Eines der 12 aufregendsten Hotels der Welt».
Muy por encima de Hjørundfjord en Sunnmore. El fiordo corre como un cañón gigante a través de los alpes montañosos. Este es uno de los fiordos más espectaculares del mundo, según uno de los visitantes. Al final del fiordo encontrarás Øye. Øye ha sido una ubicación central para el tráfico turístico temprano a Noruega desde finales de 1800 y principios de 1900. Este es un buen punto de partida para caminatas de montaña. Aquí también encontrará el famoso hotel Unión. El hotel se encuentra en su antiguo esplendor y luce como cuando se inauguró en 1891. Hace unos años, el hotel recibió el premio "Uno de los 12 hoteles más emocionantes del mundo".
Au-dessus de Hjørundfjord à Sunnmore. Le fjord s'étend comme un canyon géant à travers les Alpes montagneuses. C'est l'un des fjords les plus spectaculaires du monde, selon l'un des visiteurs. Au bout du fjord vous trouverez Øye. Øye a été un lieu central pour le premier trafic touristique vers la Norvège depuis la fin des années 1800 et le début des années 1900. C'est un bon point de départ pour des randonnées en montagne. Vous y trouverez également le célèbre hôtel Union. L'hôtel se dresse dans son ancienne splendeur et ressemble à ce qu'il était lors de son ouverture en 1891. Il y a quelques années, l'hôtel a reçu le prix « L'un des 12 hôtels les plus passionnants au monde ».
It's not often that someone discovers the perfect location for a country home while sailing. However, that's what happened to Rupert D'Oyly and Lady Dorothy in the early 1900s. The couple spotted a valley leading down to the sea close to Pudcombe Cove while out on their yacht and decided this spot suited their outdoor lifestyle perfectly. So, Coleton Fishacre was born...
The fabulous house and gardens of Coleton Fishacre near Kingswear in Devon. The property consists of a 24-acre garden and woodlands and a house in the Arts and Crafts style. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1982.
Quite recently, I obtained some lovely pieces of vintage and antique haberdashery notions from a contact of mine who specialises in importing French pieces. Amongst the items that caught my eye were this wonderful Victorian era floral embroidered trim in cream and copper coloured silk, and this Edwardian spool of Fil Au Conscrit black linen thread (fil de lin) which has a particularly lovely graphic and typography in copper upon the label.
Fil Au Conscrit which translates as "thread for the conscript' was a very popular haberdashery brand in France. Up till 1905, conscripts were randomly selected for national service.
The downcast Frenchman on the label pulled out the number thirteen which you can see on a card affixed to his hat, and so must go to war. On postcards featuring this image you can even see tears on his cheeks as he reluctantly goes to fight for his country.
The beehive thimble is sterling silver and was made by silversmith James Fenton and Company in Birmingham in 1905. James Fenton and Company was in operation between 1854 and 1956. They were well known for their manufacture of silver and gold thimbles, and later for their silver and enamel jewellery.
Trams in Mallorca are a popular mode of public transportation that run in the city of Soller and its surrounding areas. The tramway in Mallorca offers scenic views as it travels through the picturesque countryside, making it a popular attraction for tourists. The trams are operated by the Soller Railway Company and have been in operation since the early 1900s. The trams are an efficient and convenient way to travel around Soller and are a unique way to experience the beauty of Mallorca's landscape.
Mallorca/Majorca, largest of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea
Venerable Anthony Pecherskyi is a church figure of Kyivan Rus, a Christian saint. The founder of the Cave Monastery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the builder of the Cathedral in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
«Antony, who came to the Kyiv hill, where there was nothing, made a vision of what should appear here, and it has been working for a thousand years. We still honor Saint Anthony.
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Once upon a time, someone listened to Antony, gave him land, resources, people went to him - and we see the Lavra today."
/Maxim Ostapenko - director of "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra", 17.10.2024/
Преподобний Антоній Печерський — церковний діяч Київської Русі, християнський святий. Засновник Печерського Монастиря Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці та будівничий Собору на честь Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці.
«Наша пам'ять – це така дивна річ, яка дозволяє нам бути, дозволяє нашому суспільству відчувати себе повноцінним. Війна, яка зараз відбувається, значною мірою є війною за нашу пам'ять. Ворог намагається її зачистити. Наш ворог приділяє історичній пам'яті, нашій ідентичності набагато більше уваги, ніж ми самі їй приділяли. Зараз точиться не тільки кінетична війна, а ми знаходимося в самому епіцентрі семантичної війни. Політика пам'яті, політика переосмислення нашої місії, нашого місця у світі, яке зараз відбувається через біль та страждання, змінює нас і наше усвідомлення. Тому треба приділити меморіалізації набагато більше уваги на державному рівні. Я розумію, що це зараз дуже важко робити на тлі новин з фронту, загиблих і тих страждань, які відбуваються. Але саме за пам'ять ведеться війна. І кожен із нас має стати тим банком даних, банком інформації, який понесе свою особисту пам'ять.
Антоній, який прийшов на київський пагорб, де не було нічого, зробив візію того, що тут має постати, і це працює тисячу років. Ми досі шануємо преподобного Антонія.
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Колись хтось послухав Антонія, надав йому землю, ресурси, до нього пішли люди – і ми бачимо сьогодні Лавру.»
/Максим Остапенко - директор "Києво-Печерської лаври", 17.10.2024/
* Семантична війна — концептуальна війна за сенси і перспективи майбутнього: конструктивні, мережеві, загальнолюдські.
Anyone who has seen the latest series of "All Creatures Great and Small", might recognise this from the first episode. It stood in for Sunderland, when James and Tristan went to visit Mrs Hall at her son's house - one of the houses on the left in this shot.
This shot was taken from the top of one of the trams, a view of the houses can be seen in the comment below.
www.beamish.org.uk/news/all-creatures-great-and-small-vis...
Source: Digital image.
Album: WIL04.
Date: c1900.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: From the collection of Mr P. Williams.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
A replica of an early 1900s style Law Office with books from 1875 in Madison County Historical Museum, and a cornfield in the background, in Winterset, Iowa.
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My grandma and grandpa had a romantic story... he was an immigrant from ireland, only he lied and told everyone that he was British so he could get a job. Somehow, he got away with it his whole life, and it wasn't until he died that we discovered the truth. My grandmother was Danish, and she was my only grandparent actually born in the states. My grandfather saw my grandmother and fell in love at first sight, and followed her everywhere, including the choir loft at church where she sang. Her family called him "the Foreigner"... until, I suppose, they had to call him their son-in-law.
This is the only picture I've seen of them together when they were young other than their wedding portrait; I love how relaxed they are. And the puppy. The puppy's good, too.
Generations of families worked down the North East’s pits – it was the industry on which the region’s prosperity was built. In 1913, the year of peak production, 165,246 men and boys worked in Durham’s 304 mines.
Bicyclist at Greenfield Village, MI turns a corner in front of the original Wright brothers' store (moved from OH).
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This marina restoration is part of a much larger ecological project being done in an area of Upstate NY that hosts a huge variety of migrating birds. The entire project will help humans and nature by providing more food and habitat for our local and migrating wildlife, while also providing a better marina for the boaters. I am hopeful that this will be a positive change for our wildlife, but honestly, I always worry when mankind attempts to "improve" nature. Time will tell.
"Over 100 acres of coastal wetlands have been eroded from Braddock Bay since the loss of the spits of land that extended partially across the bay mouth in the early 1900s. In addition, extensive emergent wetlands have become dominated by the aggressive cattail species (Typha angustifolia and Typha x glauca). These alterations have substantially reduced the suitability of Braddock Bay habitat for many fish and wildlife
species such as the state endangered black tern (Chlidonias niger) and the northern pike (Esox lucius). The goal of this project is to protect and restore the suitability of Braddock Bay for these and many other fish and wildlife species."
Excerpted from the project plans: www.lrb.usace.army.mil/Portals/45/docs/BraddockBay/FigA-B...
Hello Canadians...if you live in Victoria or Vancouver, lucky you! The 1900s are driving all the way to your town to be playing soon:
Aug 31 2008
Lucky Bar Victoria, British Columbia
Sep 1 2008
Malkin Bowl - Vancouver Vancouver
Normally, I wouldn't do stuff like this but I just thought you'd like to know. I've seen this band countless times over the past 5 years and they have never disappointed in their live show. You can check out their music on myspace here:
Great music, great people!
A large wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) snoozes in the sun on a bed of snow in the Yukon Wildlife Preserve near Whitehorse, Yukon Territories. The wood bison is a threatened northern subspecies of the American bison, and is the largest terrestrial land mammal in North America, weighing up to 2000 lbs. After near extermination in the 1900s, a remnant population was discovered in North Alberta (now Wood Buffalo National Park) and the species has made a slow recovery to ~2500 individuals.
06/11/2106 www.allenfotowild.com
... at the entrance to the plane tree grove, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Rather an affected, exaggerated style, as was not untypical of the Jugendstil era.
At first I thought the engraved writing was some kind of runic script, but now I see that they are Latin letters and the language is German, so I can read it, albeit with difficulty:
DU ERSCHEINST SCHÖN
IM HORIZONTE DES HIMMELS
DU LEBENDE SONNE
DIE ZUERST LEBTE
DU GEHST AUF
IM ÖSTLICHEN HORIZONT
UND FÜLLST DIE ERDE
MIT DEINER SCHÖNHEIT
Huh?
Anyway, it's strangely appropriate to this sunny winter day, although the picture was shot in the afternoon.
Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor
Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
This storage room is on the outside of the old house we are gradually restoring in rural South Carolina. I’m told that smoked meat and root vegetables were stored here in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the kitchen was outside and electricity had not yet arrived. Most recently, it appears the previous owner used it as an outdoor dog house.
Vintage studio portrait of a young uniformed soldier standing beside a chair, early 20th century setting. Hungary, Trencsén, Stern Miksa photo studio.
This is the Haus der Offiziere in the city Wünsdorf. This town was the Red Army’s headquarters in Germany, it was the biggest Soviet military camp outside the USSR.
The military history of Wünsdorf goes back to the early 1900s. In 1888 the two shooting ranges, Kummersdorf and Jüterbog were linked by a rail line. The whole area really gained in strategic significance with the construction of this railway. Because of the, by 1910 there were quite a few army barracks in Wünsdorf-Zossen. A telephone and telegraph office was established in 1912 and the infantry school followed the year after that. The 60.000-acre area had become Europe’s largest military base by the time the First World War started in 1914.
Wünsdorf remained important from a military perspective even after the war, with barracks, a military hospital and stables. These buildings were part of the ‘Militärturnanstalt’ or ‘Heeressportschule’ that was established in 1919. The German team trained here ahead of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Soviets
In 1945 the buildings became ‘Das Haus der Offiziere’ (Officers’ House) under Soviet administration. The Cold War started and in this building the Russians prepared themselves for the Third World War. The Officers’ House were most certainly the most luxury part of Wünsdorf with leisure facilities such as a theatre and swimming pool. Wünsdorf was a closed town during the time it was occupied by the Soviet forces, and effectively became a Soviet town in the heart of Germany. A daily delivery via a direct rail link from Moscow allowed the town to isolate itself from the surrounding areas.
Lenin
In the 1950s the site was modernized. Firstly the pool was rebuilt. Secondly the gymnasium was turned into a theater and there were many more buildings added. Shops, barber shops, schools, a museum, a special radio and television studios, the town had it all. A giant statue of Lenin was built in front of the central building looking over the old soccer field.
The site was abandoned in 1994. When the Soviet army left in 1994 the population dropped from 60,000 to just 6,000 people.
Excerpt from Explore East York East End:
In the early-to-mid 1900s, dozens of local cinemas added to the cultural life and architectural fabric of the city. Built in 1948 and designed by architect Herbert Duerr, the Donlands Theatre was one of Toronto’s many “nabe” theatres – lingo for neighbourhood movie houses. Legendary Canadian actor John Candy, who lived nearby, is said to have frequented this theatre as a child. Many of the surviving nabes have since been repurposed. The Donlands remained a cinema until the 1980s and is now Pie in the Sky Studios – a Toronto film studio. The lobby still contains the original mural of a Chinese mythological scene on the domed ceiling, as well as the Chinese symbol for prosperity in mosaic on the floor.
Sunday is Grandparents Day in the US.
This is my maternal great-grandmother, Emma.
Reimagined.
Emma was the youngest of six children and the first to immigrate to the United States from Sweden (Dalarna County.) She was a seamstress to titled ladies in Stockholm before her trans-Atlantic journey. When settled in Chicago, she met and married my great-grandfather, Peter, a widower. They had one child, my grandma Myrle. She had one child, my mother.
Emma was my discipline in the formative years, she was also unconditional love. She taught me to cook and bake and sew and made sure I always remembered I was a Swede.
Many years later, when she began showing signs of dementia, she never once raised her voice to me. And I was always remembered. She died when my son was three weeks old. Five generations for a very brief time.
The original photograph was taken in Sweden about 1900 and she was probably fifteen-ish.
We spent an enjoyable day at Beamish, the living history museum in Durham, the North East of England.
This was our 2nd visit and we still haven't seen it all!
If you're interested in social history, I'd highly recommend you visit here; it's quite pricey but definitely worth it!
Here you can see Joseph Herron Bakery, brought to Beamish in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the Chemist and Plate Photographer which was brought to the museum and opened just after the 2014 guidebook was published, the Beamish Motor & Cycle Garage which opened at the museum in 1994 and is a replica of a typical early 20th century garage and the Anfield Plain Industrial Co-Operative Society (a Co-Op store) which contains a grocery department, a Hardware store selling typical 1900s household items and equipment and a Drapery dep't which sold materials for making clothes, household linen and other items at home.
There are several other houses, stores and businesses, including a Barclay's Bank, stables, a printers and stationer's office, a sweet shop where you can watch the confectioners make real sweets according to recipes and methods used in the early 20th century and a Masonic Hall.
The Northern Central's Locomotive #17 "York" arrives at Hanover Junction with a passenger train that originated in her namesake city, about 20 miles to the north, and after a short stop, will continue her journey south to Baltimore.
The railroad facility you see here was established in 1851 as the junction between the Northern Central Railway, which ran from Sunbury, PA to Baltimore, MD, and the Hanover Branch Railroad, which ran from here to Hanover and Gettysburg, PA, to the northwest. The train seen here is arriving on the Northern Central Track. A switch just out of view on the right side of this photo connected this track to the Hanover Branch in the foreground, which runs off to the left side of the depot building, and dead-ends there today. A turntable used to exist behind where the depot building is, and just behind my camera position is a brick house, which was once the Junction Hotel. The depot building itself was built in 1852, by the Hanover Branch Railroad, and the Northern Central leased a ticket office inside.
This location has a fair amount of history associated with it. At least twice during the Civil War, the junction facilities were attacked by Confederate forces and briefly held. After the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863, this place served as a transfer point for wounded soldiers being sent to hospitals in Baltimore and York. In November of 1863, a train carrying then President Abraham Lincoln made the interchange here as he made his famous trip to Gettysburg for the dedication of the military cemetery, where he made one of the shortest and most famous addresses of any US President before or since. The well-known Matthew Brady company took photos here that day, and some purport to show The Great Emancipator himself standing on the platform in front of the depot. The photos are quite compelling, and when you visit this site, the temptation to stand on that spot and daydream is pretty powerful. Less than two years later, a much more somber train also passed through this location, carrying the body of the slain President on its journey home to Springfield, IL.
The depot has been here now for over 160 years, although it fell into serious disrepair in the mid-1900s with the demise of passenger traffic. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and in the early 2000s, was restored to its Civil War-era appearance. It is truly a fitting destination for the tourist trains at the newly-established Northern Central Railway, which operate between this location and New Freedom, PA.
Castellamare di stabia, 1902.
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853 – 1919), the Hungarian painter loved by Picasso.
"Csontváry’s works were exhibited in Paris in 1948. Picasso spent an hour outside the exhibition’s regular opening hours viewing them, and after emerging, declared “I did not realize there was another great painter in this century aside from myself.”
Csontváry probably would have taken issue with Picasso’s proclamation, arguing that he was a more significant painter even than Raphael."
"On the hot sunny afternoon of 13 October 1880, when Csontvary was 27 years old, he had a mystic vision. He heard a voice saying, 'You will be the greatest Sunway Painter, greater than Raphael!' He took journeys around Europe, visited the galleries of the Vatican, and returned to Hungary to earn money for his journeys by working as an apothecary. From 1890, he traveled around the world. He visited Paris, the Mediterraneum (Dalmatia, Italy, Greece), North Africa and the Middle East (Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Syria) and painted pictures. Often his pictures are very large, several metres wide and height is not unusual."
"In recent decades, Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry has become a true national hero. After all, he has all the necessary attributes: he was only celebrated after his time, his canon of work is not only spectacular, but also unique, and his contemporaries in Hungarian society treated him as all future national heroes were: he was mocked and humiliated.
He painted his major works between 1901 and 1909. He had some exhibitions in Paris (1907) and Western Europe. Most of the critics in Western Europe recognized his abilities, art and congeniality, but in the Kingdom of Hungary during his life, he was considered to be an eccentric crank for several reasons, e. g. for his vegetarianism, anti-alcoholism, anti-smoking, pacifism, and his cloudy, prophetic writings and pamphlets about his life (Curriculum), genius (The Authority, The Genius) and religious philosophy (The Positivum). Some of his biographists considered this as a latent, but increasingly disruptive schizophrenia. Although he was later acclaimed, during his lifetime Csontváry found little understanding for his visionary, expressionistic style. A loner by nature, his “failure” impaired his creative power.
His art connects with post-impressionism and expressionism, but he was an autodidact and cannot be classified into one style. He identified as a "sunway"-painter, a term which he created.
The painter, after being derided for decades, ended up starving to death after the Soviet Republic took everything away from him.
He starved to death.
To give us an idea of how his life’s work was rated at the time, his heirs attempted to sell the paintings to delivery men as they were painted on high-quality canvas. Were it not for Gedeon Gerlóczy, who recognized Csontváry’s genius and bought them all up, there would be no paintings surviving to this day.
Today, a Csontváry is worth millions of Euros."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Csontv%C3%A1ry_Kosztka
bestbudapest.blog.hu/2015/07/22/csontvary_the_hungarian_p...
"a detail taken from a watercolor by Robert Kitson describing a scene in Messina after the 1908 earthquake: here we see baby Francesco together with a group of people dedicated to playing card (...and cheaters)."
“un dettaglio preso da un acquarello di Robert Kitson che descrive una scena di Messina dopo il terremoto del 1908: qui si vede il piccolo Francesco insieme ad un gruppo di persone dedite al gioco con le carte (...e bari).”
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A history of Taormina: chronicles of a forbidden love and its great secret (not only Paolo and Francesca) with an unexpected "scoop".
This story is an integral part of the story previously told, the historical period is the same, the place is the same, the various characters often meet each other because they know each other; Taormina, between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, in an ever increasing growth, became the place of residence of elite tourism, thanks to the international interest aroused by writers and artists, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , or great personalities like Lady Florence Trevelyan: Taormina becomes so famous, thanks to the paintings of the painter Otto Geleng and the photographs of the young Sicilian models by Wilhelm von Gloeden; in the air of Taormina there is a sense of libertine, its famous and histrionic visitors never fail to create scandal, even surpassing the famous Capri, in which, to cite just one example, the German gunsmith Krupp, trying to recreate the he environment of Arcadia that one breathed in Taormina (thanks to the photos of von Gloeden) was overwhelmed by the scandal for homosexuality, and took his own life. Taormina thus becomes a heavenly-like place, far from industrial civilizations, where you can freely live your life and sexuality; this is the socio-cultural environment in which the two protagonists of this story move, the British painter Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873 - 1947) and the painter Carlo Siligato (born in Taormina in 1875, and died there in 1959). Robert H. Kitson, born in Leeds in England, belonged to a more than wealthy family, as a young engineer he had begun to replace his father in the family locomotive construction company (Kitson & Co.), on the death of his father in 1899 sells everything and decides to move very rich in Sicily to Taormina (he had been there the previous year with a trip made with his parents, here he had met, in addition to Baron von Gloeden, also the writer and poet Oscar Wilde who came to Italy, immediately after having served two years in prison in forced labor, on charges of sodomy); Kitson settled there because he was suffering from a severe form of rheumatic fever (like von Gloeden was advised to treat himself in the Mediterranean climate milder), and because as a homosexual, he leaves England because the Labouchere amendment considered homosexuality a crime. The other protagonist of this story is Carlo Siligato, he was from Taormina, he had attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, a very gifted painter, he was very good at oil painting (he exhibited his paintings in an art workshop, even now existing, in via Teatro Greco in Taormina), the meeting with the painter Robert Kitson, led him to adopt the watercolor technique: almost to relive Dante's verses on Paolo and Francesca "Galeotto was the book and who wrote it" the common passion for painting led the two artists to live an intense love story. Kitson built his home in the "Cuseni" district of Taormina, called for this "Casa Cuseni", the house was built between 1900 and 1905, its decorations were entrusted to the artists Alfred East (realist landscape painter, president of the Royal Society ), and Frank Brangwyn (painter, decorator, designer), he was a pupil of William Morris, leader of the English movement "Arts and Crafts" which spread to England in the second half of the nineteenth century (the Arts and Crafts was a response to the industrialization of Europe, of mass production operated by factories, all this at the expense of traditional craftsmanship, from this movement originated the Art Nouveau, in Italy also known as Liberty Style or Floral Style, which distinguished itself for having been a artistic and philosophical movement, which developed between the end of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, whose style spread in such a way as to be present everywhere). Casa Cuseni has kept a secret for 100 years that goes far beyond the forbidden love lived by Robert and Carlo, a secret hidden inside the "secret room", that dinning room that was reopened in 2012; entering the dining room, you can witness a series of murals painted on the four walls by Frank Brangwyn, in Art Nouveau style, which portray the life and love story between the painter Robert Kitson, and his life partner, the Carlo Siligato from Taormina, but the thing that makes these murals even more special, full of tenderness and sweetness, is that "their secret" (!) is represented in them, it is described visually, as in an "episodic" story that really happened in their lives: Messina (and Reggio Calabria) are destroyed by the terrible earthquake with a tsunami on December 28, 1908, Carlo Siligato, Robert Kitson, Wilhelm von Gloeden and Anatole France leave for Messina, to see and document in person the tragedy, the city was a pile of rubble, many dead, Robert and Carlo see a baby, Francesco, he is alone in the world, without parents who died in the earthquake, abandoned to a certain and sad destiny, a deep desire for protection is born in the two of them, a maternal and paternal desire is born, they decide to takes that little child with them even knowing that they are risking a lot ... (!), what they want to do is something absolutely unthinkable in that historical period, they are a homosexual couple, what they are about to do is absolutely forbidden ..(!) but now there is Francesco in their life, thus becoming, in fact, the first homogenitorial family (with a more generic term, rainbow family) in world history: hence the need to keep the whole story absolutely hidden, both from an artistic point of view , represented by the murals (for more than 100 years, the "dinning room" will be kept hidden), both of what happens in real life, with little Francesco cared for lovingly, but with great risk or. I have allegorically inserted, in the photographic story, some photographs of the artists of the company "Casa del Musical", who came to Taormina to perform during the Christmas period: today as yesterday, Taormina has always been (starting from the last 20 years of the 19th century) center of a crossroads of artists and great personalities, Casa Cuseni also in this has an enormous palmares of illustrious guests, too long to state. The young boys painted on the murals of Casa Cuseni, wear white, this is a sign of purity, they wanted to represent their ideal homosexual world, fighting against the figure dressed in black, short in stature, disturbing, which acquires a negative value, an allegorical figure of the English society of the time, indicating the Victorian morality that did not hesitate to condemn Oscar Wilde, depriving him of all his assets and rights, even preventing him from giving the surname to his children. The boys are inspired by the young Sicilian models photographed by Wilhelm von Gloeden, dressed in white tunics, with their heads surrounded by local flowers. The only female figure present has given rise to various interpretations, one could be Kitson's detachment from his motherland, or his detachment from his mother. On the third wall we witness the birth of the homogenitorial family, both (allegorically Carlo and Kitson with the child in their arms) are in profile, they are walking, the younger man has a long, Greek-style robe, placed on the front, next to him behind him, the sturdier companion holds and gently protects the little child in his arms, as if to spare the companion the effort of a long and uncertain journey, there is in the representation of the family the idea of a long journey, in fact the man holding the child wears heavy shoes, their faces are full of apprehension and concern: in front of them an empty wall, so deliberately left by Frank Brangwin, since their future is unknown, in front of them they have a destiny full of unknowns (at the same time, their path points east, they go towards the rising sun: opening the large window the sun floods everything in the room). In the "secret room" there is the picture painted in 1912 by Alfred E. East, an oil on canvas, representing Lake Bourget. Carlo Siligato later married Costanza, she was my father's grandmother's sister, they had a son, Nino, who for many years lived and worked as a merchant in his father's art workshop. I sincerely thank my colleague Dr. Francesco Spadaro, doctor and esteemed surgeon, owner and director of the "Casa Cuseni" House-Garden-Museum, who, affectionately acting as a guide, gave me the precious opportunity to create "this photographic tour" inside the house- museum and in the "metaphysical garden" of Casa Cuseni. … And the scoop that I announced in the title ..? After photographing the tomb of Carlo Siligato, in the Catholic cemetery of Taormina, I started looking for that of Robert Kitson, in the non-Catholic cemetery of Taormina: when I finally found it (with him lies his niece Daphne Phelps, buried later in 2005) ... I felt a very strong emotion, first of all I was expecting a mausoleum, instead I found a small, very modest tomb on this is not a photo of him, not an epitaph, not a Cross, not a praying Angel to point it out, but ... unexpectedly for a funerary tombstone ... a small bas-relief carved on marble (or stone) depicting ... the Birth ... (!), obviously , having chosen her could have a very specific meaning: a desire to transmit a message, something very profound about him, his tomb thus testified that in his soul, what was really important in life was having a family, with Carlo and baby Francesco, certainly beloved, saved from a certain and sad fate, in the terrible Messina earthquake-tsunami of 28 December 1908 ... almost recalling in an absolute synthesis, at the end of his life, what had already been told in the "secret murals" of Casa Cuseni.
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Una storia di Taormina: cronache di un amore proibito e del suo grande segreto (non solo Paolo e Francesca) con inaspettato “scoop”.
Questa storia fa parte integrante della storia precedentemente raccontata, il periodo storico è lo stesso, il luogo è lo stesso, i vari personaggi spesso si frequentano tra loro poiché si conoscono; Taormina, tra la fine dell’800 e l’inizio del’900, in un sempre maggiore crescendo, diventa luogo di residenza del turismo d’élite, grazie all’interesse internazionale suscitato ad opera di scrittori ed artisti, come Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, o grandi personalità come Lady Florence Trevelyan: Taormina diventa così famosa, complici i quadri del pittore Otto Geleng e le fotografie dei giovani modelli siciliani di Wilhelm von Gloeden; nell’aria di Taormina si respira un che di libertino, i suoi famosi ed istrionici frequentatori non mancano mai di creare scandalo, superando persino la famosa Capri, nella quale, per citare solo un esempio, l’armiere tedesco Krupp, cercando di ricreare l’ambiente dell’Arcadia che si respirava a Taormina (grazie alle foto di von Gloeden) viene travolto dallo scandalo per omosessualità, e si toglie la vita. Taormina diviene quindi un luogo simil-paradisiaco, lontana dalle civiltà industriali, nella quale poter vivere liberamente la propria vita e la propria sessualità; questo è l’ambiente socio-culturale nel quale si muovono i due protagonisti di questa vicenda, il pittore britannico Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873 – 1947) ed il pittore Carlo Siligato (nato a Taormina nel 1875, ed ivi morto nel 1959). Robert H. Kitson, nacque a Leeds in Inghilterra, apparteneva ad una famiglia più che benestante, da giovane ingegnere aveva cominciato a sostituire il padre nell’impresa familiare di costruzioni di locomotive (la Kitson & Co.), alla morte del padre nel 1899 vende tutto e decide di trasferirsi ricchissimo in Sicilia a Taormina (vi era stato l’anno precedente con un viaggio fatto coi suoi genitori, qui aveva conosciuto, oltre al barone von Gloeden, anche lo scrittore e poeta Oscar Wilde venuto in Italia, subito dopo aver scontato due anni di prigione ai lavori forzati, con l’accusa di sodomia); Kitson vi si stabilisce perché affetto da una grave forma di febbre reumatica (come von Gloeden gli fu consigliato di curarsi nel clima mediterraneo più mite), sia perché in quanto omosessuale, lascia l’Inghilterra perché l’emendamento Labouchere considerava l’omosessualità un crimine. L’altro protagonista di questa storia è Carlo Siligato, egli era taorminese, aveva frequentato l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, pittore molto dotato, era bravissimo nel dipingere ad olio (esponeva i suoi quadri in una bottega d’arte, ancora adesso esistente, in via Teatro Greco a Taormina), l’incontro col pittore Robert Kitson, lo portò ad adottare la tecnica dell’acquarello: quasi a rivivere i versi di Dante su Paolo e Francesca “Galeotto fu ‘l libro e chi lo scrisse” la comune passione per la pittura condusse i due artisti a vivere una intensa storia d’amore. Kitson costruì nel quartiere “Cuseni” di Taormina la sua abitazione, detta per questo “Casa Cuseni”, la casa fu costruita tra il 1900 ed il 1905, le sue decorazioni furono affidate agli artisti Alfred East (pittore verista paesaggista, presidente della Royal Society), e Frank Brangwyn (pittore, decoratore, designer, progettista), egli era allievo di William Morris, leader del movimento inglese “Arts and Crafts” (Arti e Mestieri) che si diffuse in Inghilterra nella seconda metà del XIX secolo (l’Arts and Crafts era una risposta alla industrializzazione dell’Europa, della produzione in massa operata dalle fabbriche, tutto ciò a scapito dell’artigianato tradizionale, da questo movimento ebbe origine l’Art Nouveau, in Italia conosciuta anche come Stile Liberty o Stile Floreale, che si distinse per essere stata un movimento artistico e filosofico, che si sviluppò tra la fine dell’800 ed il primo decennio del ‘900, il cui stile si diffuse in tal modo da essere presente dappertutto). Casa Cuseni ha custodito per 100 anni un segreto che va ben oltre quell’amore proibito vissuto da Robert e Carlo, segreto celato all’interno della “stanza segreta”, quella dinning room che è stata riaperta nel 2012; entrando nella sala da pranzo, si assiste ad una serie di murales realizzati sulle quattro pareti da Frank Brangwyn, in stile Art Nouveau, che ritraggono la vita e la storia d’amore tra il pittore Robert Kitson, ed il suo compagno di vita, il pittore taorminese Carlo Siligato, ma la cosa che rende questi murales ancora più particolari, carichi di tenerezza e dolcezza, è che in essi viene rappresentato “il loro segreto” (!), viene descritto visivamente, come in un racconto “ad episodi” quello che è realmente avvenuto nella loro vita: Messina (e Reggio Calabria) vengono distrutte dal terribile sisma con maremoto il 28 dicembre del 1908, partono per Messina, Carlo Siligato, Robert Kitson, Wilhelm von Gloeden ed Anatole France, per vedere e documentare di persona la tragedia, la città era un cumulo di macerie, moltissimi i morti, Robert e Carlo vedono un piccolo bimbo, Francesco, egli è solo al mondo, privo dei genitori periti nel terremoto, abbandonato ad un certo e triste destino, nasce in loro due un profondo desiderio di protezione, nasce un desiderio materno e paterno, decidono di prende quel piccolo bimbo con loro pur sapendo che stanno rischiando moltissimo…(!) , quello che vogliono fare è una cosa assolutamente impensabile in quel periodo storico, loro sono una coppia omosessuale, quello che stanno per fare è assolutamente proibito..(!) ma oramai c’è Francesco nella loro vita, divenendo così, di fatto, la prima famiglia omogenitoriale (con termine più generico, famiglia arcobaleno) nella storia mondiale: da qui la necessità di tenere assolutamente nascosta tutta la vicenda, sia dal punto di vista artistico, rappresentata dai murales (per più di 100 anni, la “dinning room” verrà tenuta nascosta), sia di quanto accade nella vita reale, col piccolo Francesco accudito amorevolmente, ma con grandissimo rischio. Ho inserito allegoricamente, nel racconto fotografico, alcune fotografie degli artisti della compagnia “Casa del Musical”, giunti a Taormina per esibirsi durante il periodo natalizio: oggi come ieri, Taormina è sempre stata (a partire dagli ultimi 20 anni dell’800) al centro di un crocevia di artisti e grandi personalità, Casa Cuseni anche in questo ha un enorme palmares di ospiti illustri, troppo lungo da enunciare. I giovani ragazzi dipinti sui murales di Casa Cuseni, vestono di bianco, questo è segno di purezza, si è voluto in tal modo rappresentare il loro mondo ideale omosessuale, in lotta contro la figura vestita di nero, bassa di statura, inquietante, che acquista un valore negativo, figura allegorica della società inglese dell’epoca, indicante la morale Vittoriana che non ha esitato a condannare Oscar Wilde, privandolo di tutti i suoi beni e diritti, impedendogli persino di dare il cognome ai suoi figli. I ragazzi sono ispirati ai giovani modelli siciliani fotografati da Wilhelm von Gloeden, vestiti con tuniche bianche, col capo cinto dei fiori locali. L’unica figura femminile presente, ha dato spunto a varie interpretazioni, una potrebbe essere il distacco da parte di Kitson dalla sua madre patria, oppure il distacco da sua madre. Sulla terza parete si assiste alla nascita della famiglia omogenitoriale, entrambi (allegoricamente Carlo e Kitson col bimbo in braccio) sono di profilo, sono in cammino, l’uomo più giovane ha una veste lunga, alla greca, posto sul davanti, accanto a lui, alle sue spalle, il compagno più robusto sostiene in braccio e protegge con dolcezza il piccolo bimbo, quasi a voler risparmiare al compagno la fatica di un lungo ed incerto percorso, vi è nella rappresentazione della famiglia l’idea di un lungo percorso, infatti l’uomo che regge il bimbo indossa delle calzature pesanti, i loro volti sono carichi di apprensione e preoccupazione: davanti a loro una parete vuota, così volutamente lasciata da Frank Brangwin, poiché il loro futuro è ignoto, davanti hanno un destino pieno di incognite (al tempo stesso, il loro cammino indica l’est, vanno verso il sole nascente: aprendo la grande finestra il sole inonda ogni cosa nella stanza).
Nella “stanza segreta” c’è il quadro dipinto nel 1912 da Alfred E. East, un olio su tela, rappresentante il lago Bourget.
Carlo Siligato, successivamente si sposò con Costanza, una sorella della nonna di mio padre, da lei ebbe un figlio, Nino, il quale per tantissimi anni ha vissuto e lavorato come commerciante nella bottega d’arte del padre. Ringrazio di cuore il mio collega dott. Francesco Spadaro, medico e stimato chirurgo, proprietario e direttore della Casa-Giardino-Museo “Casa Cuseni”, il quale, facendomi affettuosamente da cicerone, mi ha dato la preziosa opportunità di realizzare “questo tour fotografico” all’interno dell’abitazione-museo e nel “giardino-metafisico” di Casa Cuseni.
…E lo scoop che ho annunciato nel titolo..? Dopo aver fotografato la tomba di Carlo Siligato, nel cimitero cattolico di Taormina, mi sono messo alla ricerca di quella di Robert Kitson, nel cimitero acattolico di Taormina: quando finalmente l’ho trovata (insieme a lui giace sua nipote Daphne Phelps, seppellita successivamente nel 2005)…ho provato una fortissima commozione, innanzitutto mi aspettavo un mausoleo, invece ho trovato una tomba piccola, molto modesta, su questa non una sua foto, non un epitaffio, non una Croce, non un Angelo pregante ad indicarla, ma … inaspettatamente per una lapide funeraria…un piccolo bassorilievo scolpito su marmo (o su pietra) raffigurante…la Natalità…(!), evidentemente, l’averla scelta potrebbe avere un significato ben preciso: un desiderio di trasmettere un messaggio, qualcosa di molto profondo di lui, la sua tomba testimoniava così che nel suo animo, ciò che in vita fu davvero importante fu l’aver avuto una famiglia, con Carlo e col piccolo Francesco, certamente amatissimo, salvato da un molto probabile triste destino, nel terribile terremoto-maremoto di Messina del 28 dicembre del 1908…quasi rievocando in una sintesi assoluta, al termine della sua vita, ciò che era già stato raccontato nei “murales segreti” di Casa Cuseni.
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Collection Name: MS330 Charles Elliott Gill Photograph Collection. Click here to see the entire Collection on Missouri Digital Heritage.
Photographer/Studio: Gill, Charles Elliott
Description: Image shows two young women standing in white shirtwaists and skirts, one wearing a flowered hat and one a broad-brimmed hat. The clothing illustrates whitework embroidery.
Coverage: United States - Missouri - Dent County [?]
Date: 1900-1910
Rights: Permission granted
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Image Number: MS330_021.tif
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Kaiser Matild's first communion photo with her mother and perhaps an aunt or godmother.
Cabinet card, 1900s
Photographer: Liederhoffer Vilmos
(Wilhelm Liederhoffer, 1838, Brody, now Ukraine/Ukrajna - 1901, Budapest)
Budapest
Terézváros (Theresienstadt)
Király utca 35-37.
Hungary
I have a photo of Matild where she was already engaged, and the photo was taken for her fiancé, Szenograczky János. His name is written on the reverse of that photo with his address, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep. Szenograczky was a house painter.
They had a boy in 1917, who died in WW2, his name was Szenograczky Jenő. The family lived in Rákoscsaba, Losonczy út 70.
Kaiser Matild mint elsőáldozó
A mamával és talán a nagynénivel, vagy keresztmamával
Matildot a későbbi fotón menyasszonyként látjuk, a bal kezén jegygyűrű. A kép valószínűleg a vőlegénye számára készülhetett, a neve és címe a verzón szerepel: Szenograczky János, Rákoscsaba-Újtelep.
Az Opál Stúdió, ahol fényképezkedtek, szintén Rákoscsaba közelében működött, Rákosligeten.
Szenograczky János festő-mázoló volt Rákoscsabán. genealogyindexer.org/view/1931H/1931H - 0434.pdf
Volt egy fiuk, Szenograczky Jenő, 1917-ben született, és 1942-ben halt meg az orosz fronton. Akkoriban is Rákoscsabán élt a család, a Losonczy út 70. sz. alatt. www.hadisir.hu/hadisir/?bejegyzesek=adatlap&id=765232...
Liederhofferről:
Műtermei (Sz. M. szerint):
Király utca 47.. (Pekáry-féle ház): 1870-1885
Király utca 51.. (Teréz gyógyszertár mellett): 1870-1928
Király utca 35-37. (Kisdiófa utca sarkán), saját házában: 1895-1928
Csányi utca 12. (azelőttt Kismező utca): 1880-1883
Liederhoffer Vilmos 1870. május 19-én vette el Goldstein Reginát. Strelisky Lipót fényképész volt Liederhoffer tanúja. Halála után Goldstein Regina vezette tovább a műtermet 1928-as haláláig (1922 és 1926 között fiuk, Jenő), majd Klein úr, a segéd (ld. lent az idézetet Ráday Mihály műsorából).
Három gyermekük született, Jenő (1879-1928), aki fényképész lett, Béla és Regina.
A Király utcai Liederhoffer-ház érdekes története: urbface.com/budapest/a-leiderhoffer-berhaz
Liederhoffer 1892-ben vette meg a házat, és a régi épület helyére újat építtetett: lnyr.eleveltar.hu/bflquery/detail.aspx?ID=2370058
Ráday Mihály Unokáink sem fogják látni c. műsorából:
old.hirado.hu/magazin/cikk.php?id=14881&offset=2
"Liederhoffer Vilmos fényírdája a Budapest Király utca 35-37-ben volt, és a fényképész unokájánál, aki közeleg a 100-hoz már, ami az életkorát illeti, megvan néhány régi kép. Például a nagypapa és a nagymama színezett fényképeken. Ők építtették magát a házat a Király utcában. A fotók hátoldalára oda van írva büszkén, hogy Liederhoffer műterme a saját házában van. Sőt, az is, hogy "a felvételek az esti órákban villamos világítás mellett eszközöltettek.".
A házat magát meg lehet tekinteni a Király utcában ma is, csak ma már kevés nyoma van annak, hogy Liederhoffer Vilmos itt tartotta fönn nevezetes műtermét.
Ha belépünk ebbe a házba, azért találunk nyomokat. Például az egykor elegáns fotóműteremre utal az ablakok díszesen maratott üvege, meg a "fényírda" felirat. Átvészelt háborút, deportálást, államosítást, mindent.
Egy ablakon, egy ajtón, amelynek csak a fél üvegezése eredeti, azért megvan még a "bemenet" felirat.
Liederhoffer Vilmos meghalt 1903 tájt, a felesége, 1925-ben, de még az életében a fiai vezették az üzletet, illetve az egyik segédjük Klein úr, aki ugye a '30-as évek végén - nem akarom a történelmi helyzetet leírni hosszan -, szóval a 30-as évek végétől nem vezethette tovább a műtermet, nem végezhette a munkáját tovább. Eladták a házat is, és onnantól nem tudjuk, mi lett Klein úrral, mi lett a műteremmel. Nyomai vannak csak meg. Az, ahol nyílott valaha az emeleti bejárat, amivel szemben volt a műterem. De az idős hölgy lakásán ma is látható a 100 éves fényképek némelyike, megcsodálható maga a régi kép, és megcsodálható a kartonlapok hátoldalán a felirat."