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Beginning Schubert

Schubert collection

2025

August Allebé, Stilleven met pollepels, 1900.

Scrapbook for May

SchMerz

Posted on  UTC 2025-05-01 02:01

Words: 657; reading time: 2 minutes

Moïse Kisling, Mimosas, 1947

Scrapbook for April

Beware the expert class

Posted on  UTC 2025-04-01 02:01

Words: 384; reading time: 1 minute

'Money makes the world go around' from 'Cabaret', with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey

Last chance for Germany

After that, the game's up

Posted by Richard on  UTC 2025-03-17 14:00

Words: 1,080; reading time: 4 minutes

Updated on  2025-03-18

Andy Warhol, from the 'Marilyn Monroe' set, 1967

Icon

An icon for the new media age

Posted by Richard on  UTC 2025-03-01 17:00

Words: 992; reading time: 4 minutes

Vincent van Gogh, Portret van een man, 1888

Scrapbook for March

The EU rearms | Answer the door with style | Stop the war in Ukraine

Posted on  UTC 2025-03-01 02:01

Words: 743; reading time: 3 minutes

Winston enjoying himself

Rösti für Winston Churchill

A review of Werner Vogt's new Churchill book

Posted by Richard on  UTC 2025-02-18 08:00

Words: 1,668; reading time: 7 minutes

Kurt Schwitters, Mz-94 Gruenfleck, 1920 (detail)

Compare and contrast

US dynamism, German stasis

Posted on  UTC 2025-02-01 11:22

Words: 1,394; reading time: 6 minutes

Heloise Höchner-Costinescu, from a miniature, artist unknown, ND

What became of Heloise Höchner 1?

Heloise Höchner's 'Family Notes' [8 pages]

Posted by Richard on  UTC 2025-02-01 08:00

Words: 1,202; reading time: 5 minutes

Heloise Höchner-Costinescu, from a miniature, artist unknown, ND

What became of Heloise Höchner 2?

Understanding Heloise's 'Family Notes' [9 pages]

Posted by Richard on  UTC 2025-02-01 08:00

Words: 449; reading time: 2 minutes

William Degouve de Nuncques, Le hameau neige, 1911

Scrapbook for February

Germany: Putting rubber on the road | Germany: Same procedure, Miss Sophie? | Germany: One more time around the drain? | No peace like a Swiss peace | Zeitgeist and Zeitenwende in Germany | Menuhin Academy Masterclasses 2025

Posted on  UTC 2025-02-01 02:01

Words: 1,843; reading time: 8 minutes

Trummerfrauen in Berlin.

Germany crawling

The German decline and fall.

Posted on  UTC 2025-01-03 02:01

Words: 1,033; reading time: 4 minutes

Alfred Bergström, Winter Scene, Stockholm, 1899.

Scrapbook for January

The AfD: out of the shadows and into the light

Posted on  UTC 2025-01-01 02:01

Words: 390; reading time: 1 minute

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