Updated August 25, 2005  

PROMETHEUS

Internet Bulletin for Arts, News, Politics and Science


Number 98 ............................................................................................................... AUGUST 2005

B. JOHN ZAVREL, Publisher .................................................Copyright ©2005 West-Art

 

 

The Heinrich Heine monument by Arno Breker in Norderney. Full view of the sculpture in the year 2005. Heinrich Heine was a German-born poet and writer of the late 1700's, who was more highly regarded in France, England, and America than in his homeland. His poetry and thinking was deeply influenced by major events of the time, like the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He died in Paris, where he had lived from 1831 as one of the central figures of the literary scene. For more, see ARTICLE ...

© Photo Rudolf Uebbing/Marco-VG, Bonn

 

 

This week's LATEST articles ...

'PIETA 2003', a poem & sculpture

Mother tips the balance against Bush

Heinrich Heine on the island of Sylt: the most beautiful monument

CAROLINA KLUFT: The world's greatest female athlete

 

 

The big picture: a view across the future Alexander Garden, just before the 400 tons of landfill and topsoil are spread around the sides and seeded with grass.   

PHASE ONE of the Sculpture Garden ALEXANDER THE GREAT at the Museum of European Art has been completed: a 150-foot long retaining wall from large boulders, over 400 tons of landfill and topsoil to enlarge the space available for installation of sculptures and a gazebo for visitors to rest, relax and enjoy the view. For a report and photos, see ARTICLE ...

 

 

New at Museum of European Art ...

*** The Alexander Garden: PHASE ONE has been completed, by B. John Zavrel

The Sculpture Garden at Museum of European Art

 

Arts News and Exhibition Openings...

James Simon and the Nefertiti in Berlin, by Joe F. Bodenstein

The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky immortalized in bronze, by B. John Zavrel

 

 

PIETA 2003: The recent bronze sculpture and a poem by the Swiss sculptor Renate Stendar Feuerbaum with the timeless motive of a mother with her fallen son is a timely reminder of the evil behind wars. For the poem and photo, see ARTICLE ...

 

 

Literature, Poetry and Book Reviews ...

*** 'PIETA 2003': A Poem & Sculpture, by Renate Stendar Feuerbaum

 

 

Ernst Jünger at the age of over 100 years in his home in Wilflingen, Germany. The photo shows the writer at the taking of the handprint. From left to right: Consul B.John Zavrel (Chancellor of the Alexander Order), Dr. Lieselotte Jünger, Jünger and Joe F. Bodenstein, the publisher of the sculptor Arno Breker, who had created an highly expressive portrait-bust of Jünger. Read the entire ARTICLE ...

© Foto: Marco Bodenstein / Marco-VG

 

Boulevard News ...  

*** CINDY SHEEHAN: Mother tips the balance against Bush, by Paul Harris

*** CAROLINA KLUFT: The world's greatest female athlete, by B. John Zavrel

Crests, Crests Register and the Crests Foundation at the Nörvenich Castle

   

Art Collectors and Art Market ... 

Ernst Jünger's handprint appears as a lithograph

...... more ARTWORKS from Around the World-- Dali, Breker, Fuchs, Arentz, Stendar, etc.

 

 

Swami Veda: renowned spiritual guide, philosopher, poet, author, lecturer, preceptor will lecture in Toronto, September 3-7, 2005

 

 

Interviews, Lectures & Eye Witness Reports ...

*** Swami Veda lecture series in Toronto, September 3-7

 

Political Developments and Editorials ... 

Cindy Sheehan: Pieta 2005

The US war on Iran has already begun, by Scott Ritter

  

Art of our time ... 

*** Heinrich Heine on the island of Sylt: the most beautiful monument

 

ARTIST OF THE MONTH:

YURI FIRSOV 

 

 

'The Poet Joseph Brodsky'. Detail of a bronze sculpture by the Toronto sculptor Yuri Firsov. The Museum of European Art and the European Art Foundation (EKS) in Berlin have selected the Russian-born sculptor as the 'Artist of the Month.'

   

 

New Art Books and Hard-to-find Art Catalogs ...  

ART CATALOGS for Art Collectors

 

Yoga & Meditation ... 

*** Swami Veda lecture series in Toronto, September 3-7

SPIRITUAL CORNER - various articles on yoga and meditation

 

 

The family crest of Ron C. Voth. During the ancestral research of the Heraldic Commission of the Nörvenich Castle, it was discovered that the US citizen, who was born in 1948 and raised California, had a famous German ancestor: Duke Friedrich-Wilhelm (1819-1904) von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1860-1904). Read the entire ARTICLE ...

© Wappenrolle Schloss Nörvenich

 

History, Holocaust & Human Rights... 

Ruth Zucker: MATA HARI OF ISRAEL REMEMBERS, by Consul B. John Zavrel

 

ART SHOP for art lovers & collectors ...

ART CATALOGS for Art Collectors

 

 

 Previous issues

PROMETHEUS 97 (July, 2005)

PROMETHEUS 96 (June, 2005)

PROMETHEUS 95 (Spring 2005)

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PROMETHEUS, The Bulletin of Art for: Museum of European Art (USA), Museum Europäische Kunst (Germany), Forum Europa (Germany, Belgium), Order of Alexander the Great (France), Artists for Ecology (United States, Germany), and European Art Foundation (Berlin).

Published for these organizations by: West-Art Publishers, 10545 Main Street, Clarence, New York 14031 (USA). Tel.: 716-759-6078 Fax 716-759-1983. e-mail: zavrel@meaus.com

Editor-in-Chief: Joe F. Bodenstein

Publisher: B. John Zavrel

 

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