No.942 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

and 50 years later again sent out with the Otto postage stamp.

Thank you

No. 938 - No 940 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

 

... a special mail art delivery, Bismarck motivated, with good news inside

Peter and his wife will come to Bad Kissingen for a trip

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 934 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

 

... a new Saint was born ...

No. 933 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Greetings to Bismarck

from HM The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

No. 927 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 927 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - a very late submission from Peter, he has found an already sent postcard with a Bismarck monument. Thank you very much.

No. 921 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 921 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - a very late submission which refers to the sensational discovery of an original coserved voice of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No. 912 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 912 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - a very late Bismarck on a painted board. Thank you very much.

No. 907 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 907 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has made a photo of an installation with two portraits (one from another politician of that time, Paul Hindenburg and one of Bismarck, looking face to face). Thank you very much.

arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has made a self made prototype box for the artomat project, obviously some more are in progress. Thank you very much.

... two artomat boxes from Peter Backes (Germany)

Two artomat boxes from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has used big sized boxes, unfortunately they do not fit to the artomat - too big! - so I suppose I have to change the boxes? But they are secretly closed, locked. Thank you.

No. 844 - arriving mail art "Kein Sprengstoff in diesem Brief" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 844 - arriving mail art "Kein Sprengstoff in diesem Brief" from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has sent a Bismarck decorated envelope, inside he put a newspaper article about Bismarck he has found. Thank you very much.

No. 499 - arriving mail art "Otto bei den Sioux" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 499 - arriving mail art "Otto bei den Sioux" from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has collaged a wonderful, almost 3-dimensional work, representing Otto dancing for peace in the mountains of the Sioux Indians in North Dakota. Bismarck is wearing a real feather decor on his head. Peter has sent it inside a big sized envelope and gives us also the the story behind it. Really funny idea! Thank you very much.

No. 307 - arriving mail art "Prost" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 307 - arriving mail art "Prost" from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter used some advertising images about beer mugs in the shape of Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No. 249 - arriving mail art "In Memoriam Jeanne-Claude 1935-2009" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 249 - arriving mail art "In Memoriam Jeanne-Claude 1935-2009" from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter has worked out a wrapped Bismarck in memoriam of the great artist Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who passed away some days ago. Thank you very much.

No. 230 - arriving mail art "Zwischen Biskuit und Bison" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 230 - arriving mail art "Zwischen Biskuit und Bison" from Peter Backes (Germany) - a collaged page from a old dictionary, where Bismarck were placed between the lemmata Biskuit and Bison. Peter used as well his two artistamps for it. Thank you very much.

No. 221 - arriving mail art "Das Berühren der Figüren..." from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 221 - arriving mail art "Das Berühren der Figüren..." from Peter Backes (Germany) - a collaged photograph about students from Geesthacht who did a research on Bismarck. Thank you very much.

No. 201 - arriving mail art "postcard from the future ... and the past" from Peter Backes (France)

No. 201 - arriving mail art "postcard from the future ... and from the past" from Peter Backes (France) - this time Peter has sent me a postcard from his holiday in France, from the city Metz, the postcard is a so-called postcard from the future. Peter has collaged some of his Bismarck Portraits to it. Thank you very much.

No. 164 & No. 165 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 164 & No. 165 - arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - two envelopes with different mixed address names on it together with some silhouette portraits of Bismarck, as well one of the artistamp I made out of one of his work. In one letter he told me about the acquisition of a historical postcard with this Bismarck silhouette on it and that he did not want to use it for a mail art. In the second letter I found the historical postcard itself - untouched. Thank you very much.

No. 144 - arriving mail art "Tag des offenen Denkmals" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 144 - arriving mail art "Tag des offenen Denkmals" from Peter Backes (Germany) - a curious and ironic work from Peter which refers to the day of the open monument, which took place some days ago - it is one day in the year where you can visit monuments that are normally not opened to the public. And Peter opened literally a Bismarck monument. Thank you very much.

No. 22 - arriving mail art "Deutschland und die Welt" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 22 - arriving mail art "Deutschland und die Welt" from Peter Backes (Germany) - a partly cut out silhouette with an old map inside the body of Bismarck. Thank you very much.