Airport Napoli 2012
Waiting for our plane to take off from Naples Aiport. After two weeks on Ischia we took the ferry and taxi. At noon we were starving and had a small lunch at decent prices at Naples Airport. Delicious, the Italians know how to cook.
Drawn on location.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Airport Napoli 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Procida_Ferry Naples to Ischia
A young couple on the ferry from Naples to Ischia. The background is a electron micrograph from the Max Planck Society which happened to be in the notebook.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Elsfleth, Hunte 5 August 2012
Where the river Hunte meets the river Weser Elsfleth was founded around the 9th century. It was a place for shipbuilding and shipping companies. Its decline came with the upcoming of steam navigation and steel hulls.
Now Elsfleth still hosts a nautical college. We are visiting Elsfleth quite regularly with our own sailing boat and enjoy the "small escapes".
The German weather forecast is not as good as it used to be. For this weekend they predicted thunderstorms and heavy rain. And we canceled our planned trip and just only visited Elsfleth. As you can see with no thunderstorm but with sunshine and some clouds. I think next time I will not even take a look at the weather forecast.
Ink and water color on paper.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Emma am See 2012
This garden restaurant got a complete renewal in 2010. The name refers to Count Emma. The legend reports that she gave the 500 acre to the citizens of Bremen in 1032.
Now you can sit and sip your wine in the Buegerpark and enjoy the garden atmosphere. The Buergerpark is an English garden and open for free public access. We love to visit this place which is in walking distance from our home.
Ink and water color on paper.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Sophie´s choice at Port Piet Bremen
Sophie´s choice at Port Piet Bremen
Sophie is the waitress on the right working at Port Piet. This place is a Biergarten located at the former harbor where the turf was discharged til the beginning of the 20th century (Torfhafen in Findorff). Today you can enjoy your beer, your flammkuchen and hide from the blazing sun. What looks like a tortured pizza in the front is a flammkuchen. And the beer to the right is non-alcoholic Weizen Beer.
And here my special greetings to the two women and the two couples sitting on the right and left. And Sophie of course.
In Biergarten in Germany it is quite common to join a group of complete strangers. That can become quite interesting.
And yes, there is a real bicycle in the tree.
Ink on paper
Drawn on location according to urban sketchers manifesto. www.urbansketchers.org
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Sophie´s choice with color added
Sophie´s choice with color added
The original black and white is flic.kr/p/cHR8Zj
Sophie is the waitress on the right working at Port Piet. This place is a Biergarten located at the former harbor where the turf was discharged til the beginning of the 20th century (Torfhafen in Findorff). Today you can enjoy your beer, your flammkuchen and hide from the blazing sun. What looks like a tortured pizza in the front is a flammkuchen. And the beer to the right is non-alcoholic Weizen Beer.
And here my special greetings to the two women and the two couples sitting on the right and left. And Sophie of course.
In Biergarten in Germany it is quite common to join a group of complete strangers. That can become quite interesting.
Ink on paper, then scannes, then printed, then water colored and scanned and photoshopped.
Drawn on location according to urban sketchers manifesto. www.urbansketchers.org
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Schulschiff Deutschland
Schulschiff Deutschland was a training vessel. Built in 1927 in Bremerhaven Geestemünde she now is not sailing anymore. When we go sailing with our own boat we always pass this beauty.
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Drawn on location according to urban sketchers.
Ink, pen and watercolor on paper.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Piglets 2012
The piglets in the Buergerpark always attreact a crowd.
Watercolor and ink on paper.
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Wuemmeschleuse 2012
City of Bremen: The tide reaches upstream, therefor several locks protect the land. Up til the 20th century workers transported the turf for the inhabitants of Bremen on wooden barges. Now they are transporting tourists.
Ink and watercolor on paper, 15 July 2012
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Ink and watercolor on paper, 15 July 2012
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Wuemme pond July 2012
City of Bremen: This beautiful spot belongs to the city of Bremen. Behind the embankment of the Wuemme river several ponds invite for a break on our cycling trip.
Ink and watercolor on paper, 15 July 2012
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Helgoland Aquarium 2012
Helgoland and its famous Knieper (Pincher). Water color on paper. www.manfredschloesser.de
Helgoland Dune Beach Chairs 2012
A German speciality: Beach chairs. The smaller Dune Island is a paradise and home of the Atlantic Grey Seal.
water color on paper
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Helgoland Dune restaurant 2012
The restaurant next to the lighthouse is a good place to relax after the 60 minute walk around the island.
water color on paper
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Helgoland2012_June_24
Helgoland is the rock island in the German bight. The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research has its Biological Station there. The strange tower is the water storage. We were in the restaurant Bunte Kuh (named after the ship which captured the infamous pirate Klaus Stoertebeker). Ink on red paper (actually it was the restaurant´s napkin), colored with pencil. 2012 Manfred Schloesser
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Rom e i touristi, 2012 (Rome and the tourists)
Being also one of them I can´t complain. But the Trevi Fountain yesterday was too much for me. I started the sketch and soon gave up.
Today I finished the sketch by just adding any person who looked interesting. Even cars and Vespas. Bonus material: If you look close enough you can identify some parts of the TREVI FOUNTAIN.
27 April 2012
Ink on moleskine paper, 20 x 30 cm
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Piazza Navona in Rome, 2012
Blue sky and a sunshine that makes you want to rather side in the shade. Noise from everywhere, people laughing, many different languages, the fountain water splashing: this is Rome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Navona
Ink on moleskine paper, 20 x 30 cm.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Colosseum, Rome
Today we crossed the river and went to the old places. The colosseum still there for centuries, since 80 AD.
ink on paper 20 x 30m cm
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Vaticano Museo: Entering the Vatican Museum
Impressive Doorway and difficult to get in.
I joined an English tour and after two hours watching and gazing we entered the famous Sistene Chapel. Michelangelo spent years there. I felt reminded of the movie Angels and Demons.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Piazza Garibaldi in Rome 2012
This is the place to go to have an almost unobstructed view of Rome, the eternal city.
Ink on paper
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Isola Tiberina, the island in Rome
On my walk through Rome I crossed the river Tiber, which is called Trevere in Italian. Coming back to my place I had the chance to sketch the Isola Tiberina.
ink on paper
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Saint Peter´s Dome in Rome 2012
We finally made it to Rome. Lufthansa "forgot" our luggage at the Munic Aiport and we had to find out how to get it. Two hours later.... But Rome is fantastic. Today on Sunday 22 April 2012 the Pope gave a speech.
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Saint Peter´s Dome in Rome 2012
View at St Peter´s Cathedral from the Garibaldi place. The sun was setting.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Waller Bad on Sunday at noon April 2012
This morning we convinced ourselves again to go swimming. On Sunday mornings the public pool in Walle is not overcrowded, only young families with their kids who learn how to swim.
Ink on paper
18 x 14 cm
Monday, April 9, 2012
Worpswede Barkenhoff 2012
The Barkenhoff in Worpswede was the home of Heinrich Vogeler and his extended family. They founded the artist colony and their work still attract many tourists. The building is in the style of art noveau (Jugendstil) and is open to the public.ANd it is definitely worth the trip. On Easter only the bookstore was open due construction works. We will come back and will stay overnight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogeler
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Cafe Worpswede 2012
Worpswede is a small village north of Bremen and it is quite famous. Several young artists in the beginning of the 20th century began experimenting with modern art: Heinrich Vogeler, Hans am Ende and of course Paula Moderson-Becker just to name some of them. The cafe Worpswede is a building with an amazing architecture. Almost no 90 degree angle for the walls. It was a challenge to draw this. Even the dinner plates were picasso-esk.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Bremen Vegesack SY WIETZE GlaeserneWerft 2012
Bremen Vegesack SY WIETZE GlaeserneWerft 2012
A sad boat story: This boat was built in 1902 in the Bremer Vulkan shipyard as a typical sailing Heringslogger with the construction number BV 29. In 1999 a group of Bremen citizens collected quite a sum of money to return this boat to Bremen. The Bootsbauwerft Vegesack BBV was in charge for this project. This year BBV went bankrupt. We can only hope that this will not be the end for this classic ship.
Ink and pencil on paper. Sketched on site according to urban sketchers rules.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuebingen Altstadt 2012
Tuebingen Altstadt 2012
This is a part of the city of Tuebingen close to the Hoelderlin tower.
Ink on paper.
Urban sketchers
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Tuebingen Hoelderlinturm 2012
Tuebingen Hoelderlinturm 2012
Hoelderlin Tower next to the river Neckar in Tuebingen. The poet lived there til his death in 1843.
Ink on paper.
Urban sketchers
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VAAM Tagung 2012 Tuebingen
VAAM Tagung 2012 Tuebingen
The German Microbiologists met this year in Tuebingen (VAAM). I did this sketch during lunch break.
Ink on paper.
Urban sketchers
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Girl at Richter´s exhibtion PANORAMA in Berlin
Girl at Richter´s exhibtion PANORAMA in Berlin.
Ink on paper. Modified with photoshop.
I think the people were as interesting as the huge paintings.
www.gerhard-richter.com/exhibitions/exhibition.php?exID=1669
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Bruessel European_Parliament 2012
In January we organized an exhibition named the "Blue Future" about Marine Science and Environment held at the European Parliamanent in Brussels. It is a huge building in which you can get easily lost. To get into that building is really complicated and kafkaesk. I did this sketch during a break in the cafeteria. Mostly young people from different European countries gathered there to have a coffee.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Alentejo, Portugal 2006
Alentejo is located south of LIssabon and we visited this country in April 2006.
Ink on paper, color added on computer.
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