Year: 2018

Advent In Verona

27.12.18 08.04.19Nativity Scene, Travel Advent season, Italy, Nativity Scene, Verona

Opera lovers will know the annual summer festival in the arena of Verona and may have been there at least once. It is not unusual to visit this northern Italian…

The High Altar In St. Anne’s Church

09.12.18 17.12.18Urban Sketching Baroque, Church, Vienna

St. Anne’s Church in Vienna organises trumpet concerts during the Advent season. There are several reasons why one should attend one of these concerts. St. Anne’s is an impressing baroque…

Birds Of Prey In The Museum

25.11.18 26.11.18Urban Sketching Bird of Prey, Buzzard, Eagle

I am not a nature lover. My interest in plants hardly exists and I have a very selective attention concerning animals. However, birds of prey belong to my favourites and…

Greetings From Goethe’s Faust

18.11.18 19.11.18Tin Figure Faustus, Goethe, Literature, Mephistophiles, Play, theatre

Literary greetings from Goethe’s Faust. It is the second time I painted this group. I sold the first one during an exhibition where I demonstrated how to paint flat figures.…

Happy Halloween 2018

31.10.18 31.10.18Urban Sketching Garden, Halloween

The asters bloomed gorgeously this autumn and made a perfect background for jack-o'-lantern. Happy Halloween!

In The Natural History Museum

22.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching Bird of Prey, Museum, Vulture

Vienna has experienced the warmest October since years but last Wednesday it had to rain. This answered the question if the USK Vienna will sketch outside or inside the museum…

Wild Boars In A Matchbox

13.10.18 23.10.18Tin Figure Matchbox, Wild Boar

During the warm season, which lasted this year in Vienna until the third week of October – I neglected flat figure painting. But I promise I will finish some before…

Indian Summer On The Castle Ruin Aggstein

07.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Castle Ruin

The castle Aggstein dates back to the 12th century. Today it is a ruin with a spectacular view of the Cultural Landscape Wachau. That alone makes it worthwhile to drive…

Autumnal Still Lives

01.10.18 24.10.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Pumpkin, Still life

Autumn seems to inspire me. I practised "watercolour only" and painted some still lives.

The Beginning Of Autumn

23.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Pumpkin, Still life

On the northern hemisphere autumn is beginning today. Finally! I have been longing for it since mid-June. To celebrate autumn I painted a little still life in watercolour only.

Seestadt Aspern – Cretacolor Mix

20.09.18 20.05.20Urban Sketching Night sketch

If you are interested in history you might have heard about Aspern. Archduke Karl defeated Napoleon there in 1809. Today the Seestadt Aspern one of Europe’s biggest urban development project…

Schloß Hof In Autumn

19.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Garden, Lower Austria, Palace

Prince Eugene of Savoy was already 62 years old when he bought Schloß Hof and let it remodel. A special feature was the estate farm nearby. After Prince Eugene’s death…

French Urchin With Baguette

15.09.18 17.09.18Tin Figure France, Paris

I bought this charming flat figure in Kulmbach in 2013. It was made by Reiner Mischko. Back at home I put it beside all the other figures in the cupboard.…

Kellergasse – An Ideal Place For Sketching And Wine Drinking

09.09.18 10.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Cellar lane, Vine

If you ever come to Austria you must visit a genuine "Kellergasse" (cellar lane). No, this does not mean visiting an overprised mass tourism institution in Grinzing with parking spaces…

Trieste

07.09.18 10.08.20Travel Italy, Trieste, Video

I take the strain of travelling because I love to be somewhere else. Going as Viennese to Trieste gives you sometimes the impression you haven’t left home at all. Between…

The Arcaded Courtyard In The University Of Vienna

05.09.18 06.09.18Urban Sketching Historicism, Ringstrasse, USK Vienna

After a long period I visited my Alma Mater again. Founded in 1365 the University of Vienna was originally located near the Jesuit church. In 1884 it moved to the…

My First Sketchcrawl

30.08.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching Sketch crawl, Urban sketching, USK Vienna

This week Sandra, one of our unfailing USK Vienna organizers, called for a sketch crawl. It should be my first one. Quick sketching is not one of my strengths. To…

A non-recommendable fountain pen with a flexy nib

25.08.18 04.03.19Fountain Pen, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching Fountain Pen, Product test

Prestigify, an online shop for art supplies, located in Canada, offers a flexy nib calligraphy fountain pen to a very low price. "If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly." This…

Getaway In Baden Near Vienna

19.08.18 04.06.19Travel, Urban Sketching Beethoven, Casino, Hot Spring, Museum

As the name suggests Baden near Vienna is a little town not far away from Austria’s capital. Against expectation it is an ideal place for a getaway. Baden is famous…

Hundertwasserhouse

08.08.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching House, USK Vienna

In the 1970ies Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the "opponent of a straight line", designed an apartment building for the city of Vienna, which was built several years later. I was glad when…

Picnic In Niederweiden

05.08.18 30.08.18Urban Sketching Lower Austria, Palace

Prince Eugene of Savoy was an important military commander, influential politician, great patron and prominent collector. Among other things he collected castles. When he didn’t let them built, he bought…

Not Every Sketch Gets Finished

25.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching USK Vienna

I am not a quick sketcher anyway but sometime time passes even quicker. During this meeting of the USK Vienna a thunderstorm caused a premature end. Nevertheless I am very…

Karlskirche And Otto Wagner Pavillon

15.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching Art Nouveau, Baroque, Church, Urban sketching, Vienna

Summer and Sunday, the ideal preconditions for urban sketching in the centre of Vienna. Two very different but beautiful buildings are located near each other. When designing the Karlskirche (St.…

Viennese Public Conveniences

12.07.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching Historicism, Ringstrasse, Vienna

In Vienna even the public toilets are historic and a national landmark. In the 1880ies Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm Beetz got the idea to make money out of nature’s call. He…

Streetview In Vienna

09.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching Street, Vienna

How to get a street with high houses into a small sketchbook? That’s much more difficult than it already sounds – at least for me. The angles are unreckonable and…

Stadtpark

04.07.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching Historicism, Park, Ringstrasse, Vienna

The Stadtpark (City Park) is another product of the creation of the Vienna Ringstraße. While looking for something to sketch, I found a clock tower. Until then I had no…

Museum of Applied Arts

29.06.18 28.12.19Urban Sketching Historicism, Museum, Renaissance, Ringstrasse, Vienna

Heinrich von Ferstel was fond of the Renaissance. I can’t do anything with Historicism, but even I like the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). The disadvantage of a green city…

Torcello – Sacred Tranquillity

04.06.18 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Torcello, Travelsketch, Veneto, Venice, Video

Between the 9th and the 13th century the most important centre in the north Adriatic lagoon was on Torcello. It was a see with prosperous trading houses and craftsman’s business…

Is Visiting Venice A Good Idea? – Update

03.06.18 28.12.19Travel Impacts of tourism, Italy, Renaissance, Venice

In 1995 I visited a performance in the La Fenice opera house. I didn’t come back to Venice until 2017. Can a place famous for looking as in olden days…

Palladian Odyssey 2018 – Tour 1

02.06.18 10.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching Asolo, Italy, Palladio, Veneto, Vicenza

Apart from travelling to the penguins I fulfilled myself another dream this year: a sketching tour. Initially I wanted to go to Venice. I found a German travel operator for…