RE: #needleworkmonday | 2 Year Anniversary - Sampler
When looking at your art examples, I guess you really have to visit me sometimes as I live so near to the Folkwang Museum (my father even studied at the Folkwang university of Fine arts) which possesses many artworks of the German Expressionism. The Museum has around 600 artworks which date mostly between 1800-1930. And the museum is one of the first in Germany to open its permanent exhibition for free. Which seems to be much more common in the UK (and what I love).
Shamefully I have to admit I never new there were such old examples of stitch sampler (and this one even made in Germany - ahhhhh - shaaaaame)… My knowledge about Fiber art is really meagre and therefore your posts are perfect for me, to learn a bit more in this field.
Your contest entry is great. As always with embroidery I am in awe. I am so impatient with hand-stitching that I can only admire this technique, but do not understand how anybody manages to finish such an artwork without becoming a mass murder (I hope you did not commit a crime in the last days!!?? 🙏😂)
I am so glad that this community exist and you have a big share on this: Thank youuuu 💕🥳
I love the collection at Leicester, there is a story behind it, I believe it was the collection of a couple who fled Germany in the 1930s - we have quite a big Jewish community in Leicester. I will have to go and look it up, I have several books about it, and there have been several special exhibitions. I love the transition between the earlier, more formal, figurative art and the move to more abstract art, but also, as with this woodcut, the references to much earlier 14th-15th century works. I'd love to come and see the Folkwang Museum, it sounds fabulous, perhaps I should investigate an Autumn break :)
I think with embroidery you have to become very zen! It takes a while to slow down, but I am sure it is good for us, like meditation. I was amused that sometimes my hands got very sticky and I would have to get up and wash them: my over riding memory of needlework at school (which I hated) was sticky hands.
I'm with you on the community and you, too :)
Oh sigh, the 1930s.... So much suffering, violence and destruction. It is good to know some people managed to flee and to take artworks with them. The folkwang museum suffered also under the Nazi regimen, most of their modern art collection was deemed „Entartete Kunst“, they lost 1400 artworks (not that I want to compare the death of humans with losing artworks... 😱 The latter only being sad but not tragic)
And with the embroidery: Perhaps you should initiate an embroidery meditation course - this could be a huge success (I would come) ❤️🌈☺️