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)

