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Botticelli’s Fall
Herbert Kuhner
Let me pick an artist! I’ll take the great Sandro Botticelli. He painted beautiful paintings of beautiful women.
Take a trip to Florence! You’ll see woman in interiors and walking the streets, who could have stood model for him. Botticelli was interested in artistic form - but also in the female form. No myopic […]

Too Far Gone
Herbert Kuhner
Van Gogh’s predominant color is yellow, yellow as bright as the sun when it’s at its brightest.
In spite of the fact that his brother Theo was an art dealer, he never had an exhibit and he sold only one painting. He lived in the good old days of art, and many of […]

Integrity
Herbert Kuhner
Henri Rousseau was a simple man, and he had the integrity that only a simple man can have. He earned his livelihood as a customs official, but he was also a passionate painter. He continued to work at his job even after his paintings sold well. His colleagues were more sophisticated, and when they […]

They fight each other because they have no chance against Israel.
- Tony Judt, Die Presse, Vienna, June 14, 2007
Quite on the contrary,
Israel is the best thing that ever happened
to the Sunni-Shia, Hamas-Fatah divide
as well as all Arab divides in the Middle East.
There’s one thing that the Arab factions hate
more than Israelis - and that’s each […]

Herbert Kuhner
In the famous photo of Brecht, you can almost smell the tattered stogie. He’s is a dead ringer for Groucho, but without the pasted-on brows and mustache - and the sly humor. Besides having an aversion to the odor of the stogie, I’m put off by the shabby atmosphere of his plays and the […]

- Head of the Freedom Party - commemorates the Victims of the Allied Bombing during World War II on May 8, 2004 at Hero’s Square in Vienna
According to Herr Strache the bombing of German cities by the Allies was a crime. If that is the case, then it must follow that the bombing of Guernica, […]

Herbert Kuhner
The subject of Florentina Pakosta’s paintings is often the common man. He turns up in oils, dull and blunt in earthen and mud colors with touches of ochre, as well as in graphics. Sometimes he’s depicted singly and sometimes in crowds. When he appears in company, he usually appears in his own company, […]