Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010

No. 343 - arriving mail art "faites votre jeux!" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Gemany)


No. 343 - arriving mail art "faites votre jeux!" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Gemany) - Ahlrich has used a part of my christmas card which I have sent to him and made this playing card out of it. Thank you very much.

No. 342 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)


No. 342 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)- Heinz has made a fake which pretend to be sent from Angela Behrendt - on the front a war ship named Bismarck. Thank you very much.

Montag, 11. Januar 2010

No. 341 - arriving mail art "Bismarck in New York" from Angela Behrendt (USA)



No. 341 - arriving mail art "Bismarck in New York" from Angela Behrendt (USA) - a stitched artistamp with the Bismarck silhoette on a flyer of the Rockefeller center of New York, inside the flyer some more collages. Thank you very much.

No. 340 - arriving mail art "Halbritter + Halbbismarck = Hommage an zwei" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany)


No. 340 - arriving mail art "Halbritter + Halbbismarck = Hommage an zwei" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany) - Ahlrich has refered to my surename which means half knight and created this image with Bismarck on a horse. Thank you very much.

No. 339 - arriving mail art from Pawel Petasz (Poland)


No. 339 - arriving mail art from Pawel Petasz (Poland) - a decorated envenvelope with Bismarck om a horse. Inside a computer animated print where you can see Bismarck is flying through the air accompagnied by devil like monsters.

Samstag, 9. Januar 2010

No. 338 - arriving mail art "censored ... jetzt ist es keine Bismarck Mail Art mehr" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)


No. 338 - arriving mail art "censored ... jetzt ist es keine Bismarck Mail Art mehr" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - a recycled commercial postcard from Greece with some collages whicg were censored by Heinz. Thank you very much.

Freitag, 8. Januar 2010

No. 337 - arriving mail art "Wir Deutschen fürchten Mailart sonst nichts auf der Welt" from Balu d'Art (Germany)



No. 337 - arriving mail art "Wir Deutschen fürchten Mailart sonst nichts auf der Welt" from Balu d'Art (Germany) - a modified variation of a famous quotation by Bismarck made after an historical postcard. Thank you very much.
see http://baludart.blogspot.com/

No. 336 - arriving mail art "nicht auf den Boden spucken" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)


No. 336 - arriving mail art "nicht auf den Boden spucken" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - one more collaged postcard with his typical humor - "do not spit to the ground". A little drawing of manga like girl with two peaks of a helmet on the head spitting to the wall instead to the ground. Thank you very much.

No. 335 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Keith A. Buchholz (USA)


No. 335 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Keith A. Buchholz (USA) - a postcard is the fifth submission of the conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html). Keith collaged a head inside the pot. Thank you very much.

Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010

No. 334 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Carlos Botana (Spain)



No. 334 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Carlos Botana (Spain) - inside his sending with the artistbooklet about octopus he surprised me with the 4th conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html) which came back in a modified way. Here a really funny painting by Carlos. Out of the pot there is a plant crowing with a Bismarck blossom on top.
Besides he made some artistamps out of his strange plant. Thank you very much.

No. 333 - arriving mail art "Arcimboldo war nicht der Schlechteste" from Uli Grohmann (Germany)


No. 333 - arriving mail art "Arcimboldo war nicht der Schlechteste" from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - Uli used a caricature of Bismarck which refers to the style of Guiseppo Arcimboldo. There is no senders address, but I think his typical flies identify the sender. Thank you very much

No. 332 - arriving mail art "Bismarck USA - The wether in our area" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 332 - arriving mail art "Bismarck USA - The wether in our area" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - a stitched artistamp over an winter image from with a label for the US town Bismarck and the weather information for the 6th of January 2010. Thank you very much.

... some mail art which has been sent to the Museum itself ...

two mail art postcards from Dörthe Siemers-Wulff (Germany)




one of the cards I wrote to every Bismarck Museum in Germany


the failed postal experiment with a faked postage stamp



Bruno Chiarlone (Italy) an add&pass postcard I sent to him

a postal experiment with a faked postage stamps that worked



Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)



the mail art I sent to the Director of the Museum

Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) and his lot(z) of collages inside


I did not give numbers to these mail art because it is not my collection, but of course these cards will also be seen in the exhibition which will take place in 2011.

Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010

No. 331 - arriving mail art "Der Bismarck Hummer" from Wolfgang P. Brunner (Germany)


No. 331 - arriving mail art "Der Bismarck Hummer" from Wolfgang P. Brunner (Germany) - Wolfgnag has modified an adverstising postcard with a lobster on it combined with some happy new year greetings. Inside the envelope some more paper material. Thank you very much.

No. 330 - arriving mail art "Historisches aus Berlin" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany)


No. 330 - arriving mail art "Historisches aus Berlin" from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany) - Ahlrich has modified a commercial postcard from Berlin and collaged Bismarck to the upper right corner. Thank you very much.