2021
August
All Pleasant Days
on the chain of Holiday Islands in the Southern North Sea
Carte de la Mer d’Allemagne,
Contenant les Bancs Isles et Costes Comprises
depuis Bergen et les Isles Schetland jusque au Pas de Calais
(28,019; to be done)
March
“The Hare will be Master of the Earth,
for his is the greatest fertility”
March Hares
February
Always thinking of mischief
What wanton tricks sly Cupid plays,
When’eer the rogue’s let loose!
2020
December
Ridinger, Mary & Joe, Holy Family (to be done)
October
Pheasant Hunt is Up (to be done)
September
Fête-Day September 30
Saint Jerome with the Lion
August
3x Summer – 3x François Boucher – 3x Les amours pastorales
July
AHA!
One May Travel Again
June
niemeyer’s now in the Göhrde
the Court Hunting Preserve of the High Nobility
May
Opening of the Roebuck Hunt
April
Mountain (Black) Cock Month
March
100 Years Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch
First get the Two Ridinger – but then stage the Putsch!
February
Brexit or not …
He never rode off any Field except as Victor
January
Run-up to the Anniversary Year
for Beethoven’s 250th Birthday
17 December 2020
2019
December
In Memoriam Romain Rolland
To the 75th Anniversary of his Death
October/November
23 October 2019
375th Anniversary of Emperor Charles VII Entry into Munich
September
“From Nature … drawn Anno 1722.”
The Start of the Deer’s Rutting
Pencilled live at close quarters by the 24-year-old Ridinger
August
“… if one indeed would like to have it”
60 Years AHA Price Balm
under the Sign of Leo
July
“As a Rarity paid for very Dearly”
The Tiger Horse with the Ear Bouquet
June
“Since nothing but a Roebuck for instance may be shot”
Junius — Roebuck Month
May
24 May 2019
200th Anniversary of Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen’s Death
“Nederlands laatste zeeheld”
April
ridinger — hunt par force
Triumph of the Mature Years
March
Copper Assets
Ridinger’s Original Copper Printing Plates
in the Reddish-golden Brilliance of their Centuries Old Copper
February
Grand Peintre du Grand Siècle
Charles Le Brun
First Painter to King Louis XIV
to his
400th Birthday
January
“Raised English Etching to the International Level”
John Boydell to his 300th Birthday
2018
December
… and each day one more sheet …
Boar Hunt Month
November
Lust for Collecting — Lust for Life
The written inventory of the Ridinger collection of
Alexander Count of Faber-Castell
from niemeyer’s Ridinger archive
October
220 Years Ago:
Wrestling of the Virtuosi
September
Genoa — La Superba
Andries van Eertvelt
400 Years ago on the Spot
August
August 24, 1746:
Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
July
Prints from
Jakob Heinrich Anderhub’s
“Bibliotheca Hippologica”
June
“On my Death one shall find
the Name of Barcelona
engraved into my Heart”
May
The Historical Decision
Jerusalem
An Ambassador Going into the Den of Lions
April
5 April 2018
Johann Georg Wille to the 210th Anniversary of his Death
March
Johann Elias Ridinger, Painter at Augsburg:
Ridinger’s Hippocrene and the Muse of Painting
February
Johann Elias Ridinger
to His 320th Birthday Feb. 15, 2018
Late Letter unknown to Literature
as
Résumé of the Œuvre & Character Sketch
January
“… and their hides have to protect us
from severe cold”
2017
December/January
“… and their hides have to protect us
from severe cold”
November
In these November Days 2350 Years ago
Two Gallant Young Gentlemen
pay a Visit to the Captured Ladies
October
1917 — 2017
“Revolutions come and go,
Mother Russia remains”
September
Election Month
A Look back to the Age of William Hogarth
July/August
ridinger in the sign of leo
May/June
30 May 727
Saint Hubert
“Protector from Rabies,
Patron of Hunters, Shooters and Equestrians”
Father of the Par Force Hunt
Consummated 1290 Years Ago
April
Double Feature:
6 April 1917 the United States declare War on the German Reich
10 April 1767 Johann Elias Ridinger passes away at Augsburg
March
Rarest of All Hunting Sets by Ridinger
23 of 30 Sheet of the Instructive Set
Ways to trap the Wild Animals
February
Representative for all Species of Owls
The Brown Owl — Bird of the Year 2017
Sacred to Athena — Herald of Fortune
January
The Prince of the No. I
Heinrich Stinnes to his 150th Birthday
2016
December
Lady Appreciative of Art & Frankfort Benefactress
May von Weinberg
née Ethel Mary Villiers Forbes
of the House of the Earls of Granard
to her 150th Birthday
15 December 2016
November
Sunday 17 November 1816
200 Years Cast the Lines!
Departure for 437-Days Voyage to South America
October
Carl Strathmann 1866-2016
The Great Forgotten One of Munich Art Nouveau
to the 150th Birthday
September
Holiday Impressions
August
Welcome to Rio de Janeiro
Gate to Brazil’s Prodigal Magnificence
July
Julius — Roe Whistle Month
Since in this the roebucks mainly run to the call
June
Junius — Roe Buck Month
May
Britannia before the Referendum
Ways, Byways & Wrong Tracks of
Beer, Happy Produce of our Isle
April
April 23, 1616
William Shakespeare
To the 400th Anniversary of Death of the Swan of Avon
March
In the Year of the Monkey
Ridinger’s Colored Monkey Gallery
February
Rare Calls
in niemeyer’s Garden at Snowy Night
Mating Season Foxes!!
January
Pugnacious and Magnanimous — Alexander the Great in Action
Precious Set of Four Drawings on Blue Paper
2015
December
4 December 1765 — 4 December 2015
250 Years Boar Dead
of the Famous Darmstadt Tusker of 1765
November
1865-2015
150 Years Photographic Ridinger Incunabula
October
Animal of the Year 2015 or not —
Now it’s again all about the Roast Hare
Hare Hunt is Up
September
Iran — New Old Persian Empire
August
Victorious under the Sign of Leo
July
in niemeyer’s garden
The Long-eared Owls
June
Ridinger Camels
May
“ … yet the chariot rolls ”
Into the New Driving Season
April
Musical Easter Eggs
March
Animal of the Year 2015
Appreciated at last —
The Easter, pardon, Spring Bunny
March Hares
February
Wintertide – Winter Joys
January
onwardly into 2015
niemeyer’s wishes an in every respect sparkling new year
2014
November
November 22 — Feast Day of Music
in Honor of Saint Cecilia
George Frederick Handel’s Famous
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
premiered 275 Years ago
October
Rutting Season
His Heart was with the Highlanders
September
1914 Hermann Löns 2014
Hunting Paths
In remembrance of him
dedicated to today’s
gamekeepers & huntsmen of his mind
August
The Ridingers’ Color Culmination Other Part
From the Set of the Principal Colors of Horses
as the first of the but three originally colored works of Ridinger’s
July
AHA! the Mister Ridinger
Adrian Zingg’s Album — A Whirling Plenitude of Impressions
June
Drawn from Life on the Spot 273 Years ago
The Petersburg Elephant Triumvirate
by Johann Elias Grimmel
May
Master of Mezzotint
Johann Jacob Ridinger
The Final leaf of the Ridinger Trefoil
was buried 230 years ago in Augsburg
April
To the 450th Birthday of the Swan of Avon
William Shakespeare — Immortal in his Actors, too
March
With the eyes of the connoisseur
the hot heart of the lover :
A 100 Years ago grew a
Ridinger Collection of Old Style
February
“See, (Beauty) lies so near”
lüder h. niemeyer
1959 — 2014
55 Years Trustful Cooperation
January
Taken off well — half won
Ridinger 2014
2013
December
niemeyer’s — where even The Paradise is to be had
November
60 Years Professional Experience
Join the Celebration & Save besides!
October
“We feel quite cannibalic jolly!”
Fabulous Vinousness on Vellum
by a rare draughtsman of the Golden Century
September
“ A pioneer
in directing the attention of his countrymen
to the new poetry of nature … and prepared the way for Klopstock ”
333rd Birthday of Barthold Heinrich Brockes,
Hamburg Jurist Senator Prince of Poets
22 September 1680
August
Summer Time — Cruise Time
The Visitors’ Book of
“Prinzessin Victoria Luise”
the World’s First Cruise Ship
July
1888 — 2013
125 Years Young
Franz Heckendorf
June
Two Ridingeriana
of a quite Particular Kind
May
“So that today I see Ridinger more comprehensively”
The Scent of the Rose
Exemplary for the repressed Ridinger of the mezzotint
April
360 Years Ago
Oliver Cromwell set himself once more above the Law :
The Power and the Parliament — Cromwell’s Symbolic Reichstagsbrand
April 20, 1653
March
Spring Awakening
February
250 Years
Treaty of Hubertusburg
15 February 1763
January
The Heather-bleater
The Common Snipe — Bird of the Year 2013
2012
December
After most spectacular blood-letting
Ridinger — The High in the North
November
The Great Hunter in the Sky
Changed into the Constellation of Scorpio
October
To Beer or Not to Be
September
After the Verdict of Karlsruhe
God is dead
niemeyer’s Extra AHA of the day
September 12, 2012
About feathers so about hairs …
World World — Oh Oh
August
In furious impasto
Summer Pleasure at Lake Walchen
July
Traces
“ Guidance for Huntsmen
for their further Training ”
June
Grande Dame —
royal also in her pretensions
In memoriam
May von Weinberg
May
It cures oneself to Health
where our Springs bubble up
April
pecus – the livestock , pecunia – the possession
“In April the Sun enters the Sign of Taurus”
March
Where it runs to what runs off
But Dear Euroland, no fear be thine …
Gullible Fritz though lampooned stands up for
February
The Breakthrough came 2003 —
He became Animal of the Year
Yet Wolf remains Wolf
Furtive & Shy — And Darned Persistent
January
Ridinger & Wintter
Into the New Year with niemeyer’s Patron Saints
2011
December
Europe , we weave your winter garb …
We weave , we weave !
November
Only , yet nevertheless ,
the squad of the upright in the coalition
when on October 26, 2011 in the German Bundestag
once again all consented
when Germany’s public debts
were leveraged but really out of control
… where this was sobering enough already :
1730 in Merry Old England — 2011 in Good Old Germany
“ is so much immersed in the flames
which rage on the (southern) continent
that he does not notice the closer flame
which threatens him ”
October
1711 — South Sea Bubble
2011 — Euro Bonds & Co.
300 Years Debt Speculation
September
September 11 , 1697 — 1709 — 2001 — 2011
From Prince Eugene of Savoy to the Attack on America
and how the West proves Lenin true once more
August
“Tiny Island in the Sea of Euroland”
A Journey into the Homeland of William Tell
as “the only uncompromising democracy on earth”
and as such not compatible with the EU
July
When will a Marlborough give battle to the “gentle monster” Brussels?
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough & Prince Eugene of Savoy
in the Spanisch War of Succession as
“a struggle for the life and liberty … of Europe”
June
“If everything shall stay as it is,
then everything has to change”
Northern Africa – Focus of the Moment
And shades of the Peacock Throne
May
It Wintters on
Be there , don’t miss anything
when on the 30th
an early accomplished celebrates his 260th
Joseph Georg Wintter’s 260th Birthday
April
“This man has extraordinary talents”
Joseph Georg Wintter’s
Brow Beam Formation & Spike Strength Findings
as of April 10
March
Hmm , You … Enticingly Beautiful
You Peculiar Odor of Old Mother Russia
February
A Synthesis of the Arts
irrepeatedly ennobled by provenance & Roman I
Der Venuswagen
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with Original Prints
The copy Doctor Heinrich Stinnes
January
“What is beautiful ?”
“He whose eyes have looked on beauty
is at the mercy of death already”
The Terrific Finale
Ridinger’s No Frills Fantastic Main Sheet
2010
December
“What is beautiful ?”
Less beautiful than wise
to turn one’s back on a successful party in good time
A Symphony in Green & Blue
November
“What is beautiful ?”
Thieme-Becker already anticipated it 100 years ago :
What is of “pictorial and grandiose effect”
For “one can hardly imagine more beautiful engravings” than
The Triumphs of Alexander the Great after Charles Le Brun
October
“What is beautiful ?”
Beauty , magnified …
If Beauty and the Muses walk Hand in Hand
September
“What is beautiful ?”
Incredibly beautiful , for instance ,
Ridinger’s Colored Animal Kingdom
in an all round absolutely
unrivaled copy
August
“What is beautiful ?”
This month quite virtual :
The most legendary piano wrestling in the history of music
in autograph communication by an ear and eye witness
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried’s
Biographical Notes (on Ludwig van Beethoven)
with Character Traits & Anecdotes
July
“What is beautiful ?”
Animal of the Year 2010
and a stamp into the bargain
For Badger that’s the Best
June
“What is beautiful ?”
A Ridinger Rarity of the
photographic early period 145 years ago
The Youthful Photography is enthusiastic about Ridinger
May
“What is beautiful ?”
Spring lets (the) blue (garter) ribbon flutter again through air’s expanse
April
“What is beautiful ?”
The prelude to niemeyer’s monthly beauty trip :
Originating from Watteau Ridinger’s
Lady with the Black Mask
March
Already loaded to bursting with the intentions of the coming 50 years
The 16(?)-year-old Ridinger’s fully valid drawing of a mule
at the beginning of a decades-long chain
February
So that Your Hunting Year shall be princely
January
Nous y Voilà – There We are!
2009
AHA!
niemeyer’s 50th
The Great AHA! Event 2009
2008
December
A Drawn Whistling of the Roe as a Rare Unicum
of the Bait Hunt missing in the Graphic Œuvre
The Advanced Ridinger Collector’s 3rd Part
November
For precarious reason :
Brussels – Advertising Housewife to be prohibited
October
To the 17th of the Month :
1691 Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt 1768
September
For known occasion :
The Bear with the Club
August
Watteau & Jullienne
One of the most beautiful graphical sheets of friendship
Watteau’s Double Portrait for the Ridinger Collection
July
Seldom a relatively short life was so full
The great South America traveller , painter + natural scientist
Johann Moritz Rugendas to the 150th anniversary of death
June
As First Scientific Depiction of a Rhinoceros
drawn by Ridinger from Life
The Rhinoceros CLARA in May & June 1748 in Augsburg
May
Daniel in the Den of Lions
as symbolic parable for the Israelites
1948-2008 – 60 Years The State of Israel
April
“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
Aha – The Advanced Ridinger-Collector’s 2nd Part
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
330 Years Posthumous Fame
as “the best moonlight painter of the Dutch school”
Aert van der Neer 1677 – 2007
October
Horses – Drawings – Unica
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
Shining Gifts – Elitist Gifts
November
The Lively World of Piety & Vanitates
October
October 3 – 780th anniversary of death of Saint Francis of Assisi
September
The ridinger gallery welcomes
His Holiness Benedict XVI
visiting his home
and presents
The Ridinger of Faith
August
Rich in Tradition – The New Potato
along with further fresh fruit and greens of the political day
Alfred Le Petit’s Heads of the High Society of the time
characterized by fleurs, fruit, and greens
July
Farewell, Bruno
From the Life of an Austrian-German Bear
June
“The care of the hounds let be highly recommended to you …”
May
Le Grand Exemplaire of Ridinger’s
The Fair Game Hounded by the Different Kinds of Hounds
April
The Good Friday of Saint Hubert 1320 years ago
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 individual 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 :
Rise 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
August – Sail Time
July
What has Europe’s agriculture budget growing :
« Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes du Jour »
by Alfred Le Petit
June
A Hundred Years Independent Norway :
Works by the Animal Painter Siegwald Johannes Dahl
May
A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finshed’ Work of Art
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 Philip IV of Spain on April 8, 2005
March
Frühling, ja du bist’s!
Dich hab ich vernommen!
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
The one who brings the Holiday Roasting
November
Of greatest authenticity :
Saint Hubert in his home environment
Oktober
after a strong historic quarter
niemeyer’s returns into the low points of the presence
Jumbo for President!
September
niemeyer’s optimizes his historical quarter
2330 Years Ago
Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis in the 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
August
niemeyer’s continues his historical quarter
300th Day of Blenheim
The victors of August 13
Prince Eugene of Savoy + the Duke of Marlborough
July
niemeyer’s starts a historical quarter
300th Landing Day
Wall Map on the Landing of Archduke Charles of Austria
on the Iberian Peninsula
June
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
May
In the beauty of the month of delight :
William Hogarth’s artistic credo “stirring an immense sensation”
April
So strict are customs here :
White Beer Regulations in the North
March
Colored Hunting Adventures from the Colonies 190 Years ago
Febuary
Against Rabies – with Dogs … and with Humans, too
January
AHA , look here , a new year
paintings – watercolors – drawings – etchings
2003
December
The Reindeer without Rudolph
November
The Dance of the Dead or Bone by Bone forms the Skeleton
October
Falcons + Falconry in drawings and prints
September
Watercolored chalk lithographs by Ernst Fröhlich
August
“Are there countries, father, where there are no dykes?”
The coasts of North Sea + Baltic Sea from Borkum up to Memel
July
summer , more summerly – Watteau
Juni
If staunch Old-Europeans like it or not :
American Bibliophily on Vellum – European Bibliophily in Vellum
May
300th birthday on May 26 :
Saint Petersburg – Memorial of a Genius
April
“America you have it better than our Continent the old” :
The Vengeance of a Lowly on a Mighty is pernicious
March
Saint Barbara
Patroness of Warriors and Powder Cabinets
February
To the special events and incidents of the new year :
individual sheets from Ridinger’s rarest set
January
Even as Animal of the Year :
Wolf remains Wolf
2002
December
Shining Gifts
November
November 3rd – Day of Saint Hubert
October
Wine – What does Art say about It?
September
Only the Choice makes an Election
August
The great August 2002 Halloo :
Ridinger’s Fair Game hunted by different kinds of Hounds
July
The Four Seasons
June
Italian Journey
May
You near again, swaying figures :
Election year is yellow press year, too
April
Politicians may come or go – Saxony will stand fast
March
At the 175th Anniversary of Death Ludwig van Beethoven’s
February
Dutch Wedding
January
Cheap Words make Money indeed – but alone not a trusted Currency
2001
Dezember
Silent Night – Holy Night
November
Color Rays of Hope in November
October
Vintage along Europe’s Dream Route
September
Golf – Simply the better Taste
August
Vacation Greetings from Ridinger Country
July
Franco-German Friendship 130 Years Ago :
Daumier’s great Work of Reconciliation
June
Summertime – Travelling Season
May
Month of Delight – A Truly Foppish Time
Thomas Landseer and his “Monkeyana” of 1827/28
April
Live Stock + Dairy Products in Prints of the 17th to 19th Century
March
Stalking the small Game with Hamburgs “successful Animal Painter”
February
Views from Syria and Palestine by Louis François Cassas.
Additionally Prints with Falcons and Falconry as a Sport Specially Favoured in the Orient
January
When the Stocks Tumble the Bears are Dancing –
Straightlined, Strong, Intelligent, Venturesome, Sympathetic
2000
Dezember
Here even the end comes to an end:
Hogarth’s last work “Tail Piece or The Bathos”
… and for the less hard-boiled minds:
Revue de l’année on the year 1845 by Quillenbois
November
The great masters of 15th – 19th centuries
at agreeable prices for your home
October
Oktoberfest Souvenirs:
Drinking beer furthers your health
September
School, school life, school-reports –
and several calculatory things …
August
Eve in sun and summer wind:
The Paradise etchings by Johann Elias Ridinger
July
To Rembrandt’s Birthday July 15th
June
Autograph documents on vellum
from 1604 – 1671 – 1775 – 1776
May
Marriage Regulations
by Henry Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg
April
Opera + Theatre in their Wealth of Experience
in the 18th, 19th + 20th Centuries
March
Ridinger’s fables as visual joy and depth at once
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(Mr. D. K., June 3, 2006)