RE: #needleworkmonday | 2 Year Anniversary - Sampler
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) ❤️🌈☺️