Samstag, 9. Dezember 2017

Chavela Vargas

Born Isabel Vargas Lizano in Costa Rica, Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) ran away to Mexico City in her early teens and began singing in the streets. By the 1950s, she had become a darling of the city's thriving bohemian club scene, where she challenged mainstream Mexican morals by dressing in men’s clothing while she sang songs intended for men to woo women with incredible passion – and refused to change the pronouns. This tequila drinking, cigar smoking, rabble rouser sang at Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Mike Todd (and ran off with Ava Gardner) and lived with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in La Casa Azul for over a year. (Quoted from www.chavelavargasfilm.com)

Watercolour and gouache on paper, 24 x 32 cm 

チャベラ・バルガス

Freitag, 8. Dezember 2017

Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday (15 June 1943 – 6 December 2017), was a French singer and actor. He was married for 15 years to the Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan; they were considered a "golden couple" for 20 years. Hallyday completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

ジョニー・アリデー

Montag, 4. Dezember 2017

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
 
オスカー・フィンガル・オフラハティ・ウィルス・ワイルド

Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2017

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and over the next three decades he became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.

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

クラーク・ゲーブル

Freitag, 1. Dezember 2017

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm 

クロード・ドビュッシー

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

ドミートリイ・ショスタコーヴィチ

Dienstag, 28. November 2017

Erich Fried

Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

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

エリック・フライド

Donnerstag, 23. November 2017

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

ジョージ・バーナード・ショー

Sonntag, 19. November 2017

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius 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. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm 

ジェイムズ・オーガスティン・アロイジアス・ジョイス

Freitag, 10. November 2017

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

サミュエル・ラングホーン・クレメンズ

マーク・トウェイン

Dienstag, 7. November 2017

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Watercolour and ink, 21 x 29,7 cm

オードリー・ヘプバーン

Montag, 6. November 2017

Diego Armando Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona (born 30 October 1960) is an Argentine retired professional footballer. He has served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as the national team of Argentina. Many in the sport, including football writers, players, and fans, regard Maradona as the greatest football player of all time. He was joint FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pelé.

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

ディエゴ・アルマンド・マラドーナ

Sonntag, 5. November 2017

Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on a wide range of influences and genres spanning electronic, pop, experimental, classical, trip hop, IDM, and avant-garde styles.

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

ビョーク・グズムンズドッティル

Freitag, 3. November 2017

Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy Brey (born 27 March 1955 in Santiago de Compostela) is a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain since 2011, during the X and XII legislatures.

マリアーノ・ラホイ・ブレイ

Samstag, 28. Oktober 2017

Karel Schwarzenberg

Karel Schwarzenberg (born 10 December 1937) is a Czech politician, former leader of the TOP 09 Party and its candidate for President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. Currently, he serves as a Member of Parliament for Prague and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech Parliament.

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

カレル・シュヴァルツェンベルク

Rasputin

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

Watercolour and ink on paper, 24 x 32 cm

グリゴリー・エフィモヴィチ・ラスプーチン

Freitag, 27. Oktober 2017

Fats Domino

Fats Domino (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter of Louisiana Creole descent.

ファッツ・ドミノ

Montag, 23. Oktober 2017

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)

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

ウィリアム・シェイクスピア