Montag, 31. August 2009
No. 105 - arriving mail art "Bimarck at 80" from Karen Wood (USA)
No. 105 - arriving mail art "Bimarck at 80" from Karen Wood (USA) - a little drawing of Bismarck in front of a map refering to Bismarck's health care system. Thank you very much. see her page: www.artmajeur.com/metalart
No. 104 - arriving mail art "Damned ! On est touchés!" from Christian Alle (France)
No. 104 - arriving mail art "Damned ! On est touchés!" from Christian Alle (France) - a little modfied picture of a steam boat, war ship, probably one of the so-called "Bismarck", here modified into the name nada zero, the name of his mail art zine. Samstag, 29. August 2009
No. 102 & No. 103 - arriving mail art "Allzeit bereit" & "Circus Universal Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)
No. 102 & No. 103 - arriving mail art "Allzeit bereit" & "Circus Universal Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - two more collages from Heinz. No. 102 is a sihouette cut out Bismarck and his boots with a Hering inside. No. 103 is a little poster of a Circus which take place at Darmstadt, Heinz modified it into a Bismarck poster. Thank you very much.No. 101 - arriving mail art from Bruno Chiarlone (Italy)
No. 101 - arriving mail art from Bruno Chiarlone (Italy) - Bruno has sent a decorated postcard with his face as well as one Bismarck postage stamp on it. Thank you very much.No. 100 - arriving mail art from Balu d'Art (Germany)
No. 100 - arriving mail art from Balu d'Art (Germany) - a nice fractal collaged portrait of Bismarck. Thank you very much. see the blog: http://baludart.blogspot.com/
Freitag, 28. August 2009
No. 99 - arriving mail art "Bismarcks Erben heute" from Bernhard Zilling (Germany)
No. 99 - arriving mail art "Bismarcks Erben heute" from Bernhard Zilling (Germany)- the second add&pass sheet from Lothar Trott arrived already (see here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-84-arriving-mail-art-who-knows-about.html), here the modification from Bernhard Zilling. On the envelope he refers to the political situation today. Thank you very much.see his page: http://www.bernhard-zilling.de/
No. 98 - arriving mail art "1862 Deutschland - warp speed ahead" from Mona Horlick (USA)
No. 98 - arriving mail art "1862 Deutschland - warp speed ahead" from Mona Horlick (USA) - a collaged and painted postcard with a little map on it. Thank you very much.No. 97 - arriving mail art "Bismarckpillen. Tausendfach erprobt bei Blut & Eisen Anämie" from Uli Grohmann (Germany)
No. 97 - arriving mail art "Bismarckpillen. Tausendfach erprobt bei Blut & Eisen Anämie" from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - a computer generated photography showing a mystical medicine in glas containers. Thank you very much.Mittwoch, 26. August 2009
No. 96 - arriving mail art from Eliso Ignacio Silva (Venezuela)
No. 96 - arriving mail art from Eliso Ignacio Silva (Venezuela) - a computer generated image of Eliso while he is taking a photograph, inside the lense there is a little portrait of Bismarck. Thank you very much. see his blog: http://osile.blogspot.com/
No. 95 - arriving mail art "OTTO" from Michel Della Vedova (France)
No. 95 - arriving mail art "OTTO" from Michel Della Vedova (France) - a computer generated image of Bismarck with spectacles in the shape of the word "Otto". Thank you very much.No. 94 - arriving mail art from Bruno Chiarlone (Italy)
No. 94 - arriving mail art from Bruno Chiarlone (Italy) - Bruno has sent a decorated envelope with a repo of the historical postage stamp together with a fish. Inside a postcard after a painting by Gudrun von Rimscha from 1998 which Bruno modified with this postage stamp. Thank you very much.No. 93 - arriving mail art from Dr. Brignone (Italy)
No. 93 - arriving mail art from Dr. Brignone (Italy) - Otto von Bismarck and Gioachino Rossini are sitting together on a red couch. Thank you very much. see his blog: http://creaturesmailartcall.blogspot.com/
see as well his new blog: http://rossinimailart.blogspot.com/
No. 91 & No. 92 - arriving mail art "Der Bismarckhering träumt" & " ... dann lieber Hering?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)
No. 91 & No. 92 - arriving mail art "Der Bismarckhering träumt" & " ... dann lieber Hering?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - two more collages from Heinz. In No. 91 he used once more the stitched fish mail art from Angela Behrendt and modified it with collages by fitting a whale inside it; the No. 92 refers as well to the whale and all the products which can be made out of it. Thank you very much.Montag, 24. August 2009
No. 90 - arriving mail art "Otto der Schöngeist" from Heinz W. Lotz (Thailand)
No. 90 - arriving mail art "Otto der Schöngeist" from Heinz W. Lotz (Thailand) - Heinz has used a artcard from Daniel Behrendt and modified it into a Bismarck mail art, sending it from his holidays. Thank you very much.Freitag, 21. August 2009
No. 89 - arriving mail art "Who knows about Mrs. Bismarck?" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)
No. 89 - arriving mail art "Who knows about Mrs. Bismarck?" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - the first add&pass sheet from Lothar Trott arrived already (see here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-84-arriving-mail-art-who-knows-about.html), here the modification from Angela Behrendt. She refers to the wife of Bismarck, Johanna. Angela has sent as well the original envelope he got from Lothar without using a valid postage stamp. Thank you very much.No. 88 - arriving mail art "Das doppelte (L)ottchen: Es kann nur einen geben" from Heike Sackmann (Germany)
No. 88 - arriving mail art "Das doppelte (L)ottchen: Es kann nur einen geben" from Heike Sackmann (Germany) - Heike has drawn a funny comic with two Ottos on it building the word OTTO; one of them was killing the other. Thank you very much. see her blogs: http://bzw-plus-n.blogspot.com/
No. 87 - arriving mail art from Carlo Maria Giudici (Italy)
No. 87 - arriving mail art from Carlo Maria Giudici (Italy) - Carlo has sent me a modern portrait in tempera and watercolour. Inside he puts some notes about his career. Thank you very much. see his page: http://www.carlomariagiudici.it/
No. 85 & No. 86 - arriving mail art "an der Bismarckschule" and "Hannover Bismarckstrasse" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)
No. 85 & No. 86 - arriving mail art "an der Bismarckschule" and "Hannover Bismarckstrasse" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - Angela has found some places in her home town which are conneceted to Otto von Bismarck. Thank you very much.Donnerstag, 20. August 2009
No. 84 - arriving mail art "who knows about Mr. Bismarck?" from Lothar Trott (Switzerland)
No. 84 - arriving mail art "who knows about Mr. Bismarck?" from Lothar Trott (Switzerland) - a big sized envelope with some Bismarck stamps on it which I have sent to him. Inside he modified my sheet with the Bisamarck arrangement (which you can see here: http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com/2009/08/outgoing-collartage-to-lothar-trott.html) and did some extra computer print outs on this sheet and sticked some extra collages on it. Lothar copied this sheet 10 times and has sent them out to different artists to make their modifications on it and maybe to send it afterwards to me. Funny project. Looking forward to see some modifications. Thank you very much.