Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Irish Farmer

Illustration after a photo in the book "Irish Moments” by Bernd Weisbrod

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

Irish Falconer

Illustration after a photo in the book "Irish Moments” by Bernd Weisbrod

Watercolour, crayons and ink, 24 x 32 cm

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi Arabian Islamist activist, dissident, author, columnist for the Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

ジャマル・カショギ

Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Ink on paper, 21 x 29, 7 cm

アルベルト・アインシュタイン

Egon Schiele

"I am so rich that I must give myself away." - Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

エゴン・シーレ

Barry Blitt

Barry Blitt (born April 30, 1958 in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec) is a Canadian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his New Yorker covers and as a regular contributor to the op-ed page of The New York Times. Blitt creates his works in traditional pen and ink, as well as watercolors. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Watercolour, gouache and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

Luka Modrić

Ballon d´Or 2018: Luka Modrić 

(born 9 September 1985) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Croatia national team. Modrić plays mainly as a central midfielder but can also play as an attacking midfielder or as a defensive midfielder, usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker. Modrić is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, and the greatest Croatian footballer of all-time. Able to blend traditional and trequartista playmaking effectively, he is known for his vision, precision in execution, and tactical strategy.

ルカ・モドリッチ

Alexander Saroukhan

Alexander Saroukhan (October 1, 1898 in Russian Empire - 1977 Cairo, Egypt) was an Armenian-Egyptian cartoonist and caricaturist whose drawings have appeared in a number of Arabic and international newspapers and magazines. He is considered one of the best and most famous caricaturists in the Arab world. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Egon Schiele

“And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.” ― Egon Schiele

エゴン・シーレ

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm 

アルベルト・アインシュタイン

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

エゴン・シーレ

Felix Mitterer

Felix Mitterer (* 6. Februar 1948 in Achenkirch, Tirol) ist ein österreichischer Dramatiker und Schauspieler. Er ist als Theater-, Hörspiel- und Drehbuchautor tätig.

Immigration

Hispanic Migrants and nationalistic US-militias face each other at the US-Mexican border

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest boxers of all time.

Watercolour, gouache and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

モハメド・アリ

Paul Bocuse

Paul Bocuse (11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon who was known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine.

A student of Eugénie Brazier, he was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality.

ポール・ボキューズ

Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo (October 15 in New York City, 1920 – July 2, 1999 in Bay Shore on Long Island)) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film. His last novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

マリオ・プーゾ

Al Capone

Al Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

アル・カポネ

Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano alias Salvatore Lucania (November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an influential Italian-born mobster, criminal mastermind, and crime lord who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of the first Commission. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associates, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

“ラッキー”チャールズ・ルチアーノ

Zorba The Greek (Anthony Quinn & Eleni Anousaki)

Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Mexican actor, painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Message, Lion of the Desert, Last Action Hero and A Walk in the Clouds.

アンソニー・クイン

Eleni Anousaki was born on May 1, 1944 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress, known for Xypna, koroido... (1969), Alexis Zorba (1964) and Omorfes meres (1970). She is married to Dimitris Papakonstadis.

Watercolour, gouache and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

James Joyce visita a Frida

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm 

ジェイムズ・ジョイス 

Dominic Thiem

Dominic Thiem (born 3 September 1993 in Wiener Neustadt) is an Austrian professional tennis player who has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 4, which he first achieved on 6 November 2017. He has won eleven singles titles on the ATP Tour. In 2018, Thiem reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open.

ドミニク・ティエム

PS: I give you a link to an article about Dominic Thiem in my french blog: Click here!

Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups in history.

ビヨンセ・ジゼル・ノウルズ

Inside Trump´s brain

What Donald Trump is really thinking...

Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Too much Trump

...will kill you.

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. Canetti moved to England in 1938 after the Anschluss to escape Nazi persecution. He is known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his non-fiction book “Crowds and Power”, among other works. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

エリアス・カネッティ

The first Social Networker

Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukengere Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped by rebel forces. He has treated thousands of women who were victims of rape since the Second Congo War, some of them more than once, performing up to ten operations a day during his 18-hour working days.
In 2018, Mukwege and Nadia Murad were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

デニス・ムクウェージ

Le Rosier

Watercolour, wet-on-wet, 24 x 32 cm

KARL LAGERFELD

Karl Lagerfeld (Hamburg, 10 September 1933) is a German creative director, artist and caricaturist living in Paris. He is the head creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. He is well recognized around the world for his white hair, black sunglasses, and high starched collars.

Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

カール・オットー・ラガーフェルド

Kasper König

Kasper König (born 1943 in Mettingen) is a German museum director and curator. From 2000 to 2012, he was director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. He is the founding director of Skulptur Projekte Münster. König was chief curator of Manifesta 10, which was hosted in St. Petersburg in 2014.

Watercolour and ink on paper, 24 x 32 cm

カスパー・ケーニッヒ

La Muerte

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency and previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008).

バラク・フセイン・オバマ2世

On the way home

Illustration after a photo in the book "Irish Moments” by Bernd Weisbrod

Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

アルベルト・アインシュタイン

Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha (18 September 1958 – 12 September 2018) was an Algerian singer and activist based in France described as "sonically adventurous". His music was influenced by many different styles including rock, electronic, punk and raï. Taha suffered from Arnold Chiari disease diagnosed in 1987. "I'm tired of people thinking I'm a drunk on stage. While these are the symptoms of Arnold Chiari disease. I'm stumbling because I'm losing my balance. I'm wavering. It generates a disruption in the body. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

ラシッド・タハ

Coluche

Michel Colucci (28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986) was a French comedian and actor famous for his sense of humor. He adopted "Coluche" as a stage name at age 26, when he began his entertainment career and became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment. Coluche was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities as a source of humor on French television.

コリューシュ

ミシェル・コルッチ

John Bolton

John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant and activist, government official and former diplomat who serves as the 27th National Security Advisor of the United States.

ジョン・ロバート・ボルトン

Inside the Kindergarten

Donald Trump in the White House

Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the greatest service returner ever to play the game and was described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history". (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

アンドレ・カーク・アガシ 

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash (born February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honour of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

ジョニー・キャッシュ

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

エルヴィス・アーロン・プレスリー

Björn Borg

Björn Rune Borg (born 6 June 1956 in Stockholm) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player widely considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the sport. Between 1974 and 1981 he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles (six at the French Open and five consecutive at Wimbledon). He also won three year-end championships and 15 Grand Prix Super Series titles. Overall, he set numerous records that still stand. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org) 

Watercolour and ink on paper, circa 20 x 20 cm 

ビョルン・ボルグ

Magnum, p.i.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum is the main character and namesake of Magnum, P.I., a popular, American television series set in Hawaii, and which aired from 1980 to 1988. Magnum was portrayed by Tom Selleck. As the title suggests, Magnum is a private investigator.

Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm

トム・セレック

マグナム