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2010

March

Already loaded to bursting with the intentions of the coming 50 years
Ridinger’s earliest (?) fully valid drawing
and thematic prelude to 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 Unique
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

“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 – Uniques

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

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

Tradition-rich – 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 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

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’ 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

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

October

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 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

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

February

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

Watercoloured 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

June

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 :
Single 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

Vine – What has Art to say on 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 journaille 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

December

Silent Night – Holy Night

November

Colour 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

December

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 souveniers:
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

Three autograph documents on vellum
from 1604 – 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

„ Haben Sie herzlichen Dank für Ihre Rückmeldung … mein Ridinger-Problem ist durch andere Vergleiche vorerst gelöst. Dennoch bin ich sehr positiv überrascht über Ihren professionellen (JayAitchDesign) Internet-Auftritt, den ich sicherlich bald einmal nutzen möchte. Mit besten Grüßen “

(Herr M. M.-P., 17. Januar 2009)