The AHA! Event of the Month

2008

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2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

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every month new – every month something else

— niemeyer’s AHA! events —

2008

May

“Arise, (Athlets) of this Earth … … The Internationale (fights for the Nations’ Right)” The Rights of Man Today as topical as for Thomas Paine 200 Years ago And J. E. Ridinger & B. H. Brockes let us “See an Image of the Wild Victor”

March

But the masses cried Crucify him , crucify him !

February

January

With Old Diligence into the New Year : Working on China’s Rise

2007

December

Ruddle-marked proof discharge print with further extras ad Th. 66 Ridinger for the Advanced

November

October

September

“What a Devilish Occupation Hunting actually is?” Good Sport

August

Already in his lifetime the rich yearned for his paintings 350 years posthumous fame – Frans Snyders 1657 – 2007

July

1497 – 1507 – 1917 – 2007 Leipsic celebrates 500 Years Staple & Depot Privilege

June

art – a matter for guys who keep the ball rolling Arthur Grunenberg’s Horse Tamer suite of 1922

May

The Islanders neither lose Patience nor the Laugh : 75th Stage Jubilee of Islander Günter Neumann 50 Years Ascension Day Binge as only Berlin can have it

April

Together to the 500th Anniversary of Death April 2, 2007 The Augsburg Recollector + Francis of Paula, Founder of the Order of Minims

March

March 14, 1757 ‘pour encourager les autres’ : Trial and execution of Admiral John Byng sent shock waves throughout Europe

February

The Augsburg Porcupine Ridinger – more than his reputation His porcupine Th. 480 as a parable

January

At Full Blast into the New Year : An Administration Romps

2006

December

Make a Shining Gift – Make an Elitist Gift : Original 18th Century Copper-Printing-Plates Singular Solitaires , “ Crowning Keystone(s) of a Collection ” : » I know the plate will only gain in value «

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

Rare pioneer of English marine painting : 3 drawings in grey wash on vellum by Thomas Baston Topped moreover by the respective contemporary prints

February

The fourth Tischbein that should not fit into the concept of Cassel + Leipsic : The “Collection of 170 Engravings” as most comprehensive work documentation of Johann Heinrich Tischbein II Plus numerous single sheets

January

There the connoisseurs crowd at the up-beat of the new Ridinger Year : Selected items from the Ridinger collection of Count Radulf of Castell-Rüdenhausen

2005

December

In Anticipation of the returning Sun Ridinger’s The Deer’s Four Times of Day

November

Time of depression before the return of light : Ridinger great in vanitates, too

October

Apprenticeship has started : Raise and Fall of Goodchild + Tom Idle or The Chances + Risks of Diligence + Idleness . For there are always two possibilities – for the individual as for state + society

September

September Cry for September Election : John Wilkes or The Attempt “to set Despotism … at the Place of the Legal Forms” A terrifying timeless-topical didactic example

August

July

What has Europe’s agriculture budget growing : «Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes du Jour» by Alfred Lepetit

June

A Hundred Years Independent Norway : Works by the Animal Painter Siegwald Johannes Dahl

May

A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finshed’ Artwork and precious rarity to the 1895 oil burned in 1942 : “Cranes of Ibycus” by Carl Strathmann

April

The Royal Eye : To the 400th birthday of Philipp IV of Spain on April 8, 2005

March

February

As companion to Don Quixote’s 400th birthday : Samuel Butler’s and William Hogarth’s “Hudibras” as the “vulgarized (English) Don Quixote”

January

Bird of the Year 2005 : The Eagle Owl – Bird of Wisdom

2004

December

November

Of greatest authenticity : Saint Hubert in his home environment

October

after a strong historic quarter niemeyer’s returns into the low points of the presence Jumbo for President!

September

“Arise, (Athlets) of this Earth …
… The Internationale (fights for the Nations’ Right)”
The Rights of Man
Today as topical as for Thomas Paine 200 Years ago
And J. E. Ridinger & B. H. Brockes let us
“See an Image of the Wild Victor”

But the masses cried
Crucify him , crucify him !

With Old Diligence into the New Year :
Working on China’s Rise

Ruddle-marked proof discharge print with further extras ad Th. 66
Ridinger for the Advanced

“What a Devilish Occupation Hunting actually is?”
Good Sport

Already in his lifetime the rich yearned for his paintings
350 years posthumous fame – Frans Snyders 1657 – 2007

1497 – 1507 – 1917 – 2007
Leipsic celebrates 500 Years Staple & Depot Privilege

art – a matter for guys who keep the ball rolling
Arthur Grunenberg’s Horse Tamer suite of 1922

The Islanders neither lose Patience nor the Laugh :
75^th Stage Jubilee of Islander Günter Neumann
50 Years Ascension Day Binge as only Berlin can have it

Together to the 500^th Anniversary of Death April 2, 2007
The Augsburg Recollector
+
Francis of Paula, Founder of the Order of Minims

March 14, 1757
‘pour encourager les autres’ :
Trial and execution of Admiral John Byng
sent shock waves throughout Europe

The Augsburg Porcupine
Ridinger – more than his reputation
His porcupine Th. 480 as a parable

At Full Blast into the New Year :
An Administration Romps

Make a Shining Gift – Make an Elitist Gift :
Original 18^th Century Copper-Printing-Plates
Singular Solitaires ,
“ Crowning Keystone(s) of a Collection ” :
» I know the plate will only gain in value «

Rare pioneer of English marine painting :
3 drawings in grey wash on vellum by Thomas Baston
Topped moreover by the respective contemporary prints

The fourth Tischbein
that should not fit into the concept of Cassel + Leipsic :
The “Collection of 170 Engravings”
as most comprehensive work documentation of Johann Heinrich Tischbein II
Plus numerous single sheets

There the connoisseurs crowd
at the up-beat of the new Ridinger Year :
Selected items from the Ridinger collection of
Count Radulf of Castell-Rüdenhausen

In Anticipation of the returning Sun
Ridinger’s The Deer’s Four Times of Day

Time of depression before the return of light :
Ridinger great in vanitates, too

Apprenticeship has started :
Raise and Fall of Goodchild + Tom Idle
or
The Chances + Risks of Diligence + Idleness .
For there are always two possibilities –
for the individual as for state + society

September Cry for September Election :
John Wilkes or The Attempt
“to set Despotism … at the Place of the Legal Forms”
A terrifying timeless-topical didactic example

What has Europe’s agriculture budget growing :
«Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes du Jour» by Alfred Lepetit

A Hundred Years Independent Norway :
Works by the Animal Painter Siegwald Johannes Dahl

A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finshed’ Artwork
and precious rarity to the 1895 oil burned in 1942 :
“Cranes of Ibycus” by Carl Strathmann

The Royal Eye :
To the 400^th birthday of Philipp IV of Spain on April 8, 2005

As companion to Don Quixote’s 400^th birthday :
Samuel Butler’s and William Hogarth’s “Hudibras”
as the “vulgarized (English) Don Quixote”

Bird of the Year 2005 :
The Eagle Owl – Bird of Wisdom

Of greatest authenticity :
Saint Hubert in his home environment

after a strong historic quarter
niemeyer’s returns into the low points of the presence
Jumbo for President!

niemeyer’s optimizes his historical quarter
2330 Years Ago
Alexander the Great on the Hyphasis in Punjab, India, in autumn 326 B.C.
Military Historically
“The only defeat Alexander had ever suffered”
Civilizingly
His greatest victory
Ridinger’s Alexander drawing of 1723

niemeyer’s continues his historical quarter
300^th Day of Blenheim
The victors of August 13
Prince Eugene of Savoy + the Duke of Marlborough

niemeyer’s starts a historical quarter
300^th Landing Day
Wall Map on the Landing of Archduke Charles of Austria
on the Iberian Peninsula

Painted into the political trend hoppers’ membership books
on occasion of the European election :
When Berlin still stood to America and the Insulaner
didn’t lose the patience – and the laugh

In the beauty of the month of delight :
William Hogarth’s artistic credo “stirring an immense sensation”

So strict are customs here :
White Beer Regulations in the North

AHA , look here , a new year
paintings – watercolors – drawings – etchings

“Are there countries, father, where there are no dykes?”
The coasts of North Sea + Baltic Sea from Borkum up to Memel

If staunch Old-Europeans like it or not :
American Bibliophily on Vellum – European Bibliophily in Vellum

300th birthday on May 26 :
Saint Petersburg – Memorial of a Genious

“America you have it better than our Continent the old” :
The Vengeance of a Lowly on a Mighty is pernicious

To the special events and incidents of the new year :
Single sheets and original copper-printing-plates from Ridinger’s rarest set