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Andy Bleck

Andy Bleck
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Paris - Museé Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle 1998

1999

Hamburg - exhibition Philippe Starck

Exhibition opening Berlin

Trees in London, 1999

Greenwich

Kensington Gardens

Fulham - Bishops Park

St James Park

Hyde Park

Greenwich

Hyde Park

Hyde Park

2000

Millenium Bridge under construction

National Gallery

City

Gracht in Haarlem

Amsterdam - Rijksmuseum (tunnel underneath)

Amsterdam Bar

Berlin

(copied from book)

Berlin

2001

London - Klezmer concert at Spitalfields market (pencil)

London - St.Pauls (during rebuilding of surrounding area)

London - Sir Norman Foster's Gherkin
(still missing the panes of glass at the top)

Thames at Putney

Museum in Cambridge, 2001

Calais - Eurostar Station (I had to change here, because all the normal train routes were flooded)

Paris - Apartment of a friend where I stayed.

Paris (12e) - (pencil)

Small church opposite Notre Dame

Hamburg - Alster - (a sort of lake in the town centre)

Hamburg - This pleasant little place east of the station is actually a junky hangout, and various shady characters, plus a couple of cops, took particalar interest in what I was up to. (At first I was slightly annoyed that everyone knew I was from out of town.)

Frankfurt - Hauptbahnhof (main railyway station)

Berlin 2001

Berlin - Dom and the old GDR Hotel being pulled down.

Berlin - Museum of Natural History, Invalidenstrasse

Berlin - Oranienburger Strasse

Berlin

Berlin - Architectural studio overlooking Kreuzberg/Görlitzer Park

Berlin

Berlin - Görlitzer Park

Berlin - Wasserturm (Prenzlauer Berg)

Berlin - Immanuelkirchstrasse

Berlin - Roller Friedhof (cemetery)

Berlin - Immanuelkirchstrasse

Berlin - staircase Greifswalder Strasse

Berlin - Greifswalder Strasse

Berlin - Alte Jakobstrasse

Berlin - Weisser See

Berlin - Chinakneipe, Zossener Strasse

Berlin - Hasenheide

Berlin - Kuba Bar im LSD Viertel (Prenzlauer Berg)

Berlin - Fetes de Musique - Ska Band in Kreuzberg

Berlin - Fetes de Musique

Berlin

Berlin - (pencil)

Berlin - Aegyptisches Museum

Berlin - Rechtsanwaltsbüro - (pencil)

Berlin - Mauerstrasse - (pencil)

Berlin - Märkisches Museum

Berlin - (Prenzlauer Berg) - (pencil)

Berlin - Kneipe Winsstrasse - (pencil)

Berlin - Immanuelkirchstrasse - (pencil)

Berlin - Top: Kulturbrauerei - Bottom: Comicfestival/Comicgarten
(more sketches in the Comics Festival Section)

Durcheinander

Biergarten Heidelberg

Dead Mouse

Hampstead Heath

Paris 2002

Calais

Paris - Takashi Murakami at the Fondation Cartier

Paris - Comicshop 'Au Regard Moderne'

Paris - Musee d'Orsay

Paris - Cimetiere Montmartre

Frankfurt - Church that will be torn down

Berlin 2002

Berlin - friend with two cats

Berlin/Potsdam - Einsteinturm

Berlin/Potsdam - Sanssouci Collonade. (this day the main buldings where closed, that's why it was so empty)

Berlin Dom from the 'veranda'

Berlin Kantstrasse

Berlin - exhibition by the comics artist Wittek at the Galerie Grober Unfug.

Municipal parliament (to the left). Fernsehturm (TV Tower) basement on the right.

Berlin - Ostbahnhof (starting for Hamburg)

Hamburg 2002

(I went to Hamburg for the comics festival 'Heftich'. For the sketches I made there click here.)

Three sketches from a gallery opening.

For this detailed drawing I went back later.

At night in the park. If you want to know what the others I was with were up to, here's a photo

(Hamburg) 3 sketches of Tav Falco perfoming at Molotov (Reeperbahn nightclub).

(Hamburg) Schanzenviertel - (viertel means quartier) (vier means four, ie quarter)

(Hamburg) Two sketches of all-night party

(Hamburg) Performance art by Christian 3 Roosen

Hamburg Railway Station - Off to Frankfurt

Frankfurt 2002

Filmmuseum, exhibition opening ('Heinz Rühmann')

Laudatio spoken by his widow

Oberursel

S-Bahn

8 sketches from a Jazz Concert at Mousonturm, a culture complex.
This went on through half the night.

Copied from Manet

Landesmuseum (county museum) Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt (30 minutes by S-Bahn/municipal railway)

Frankfurt Airport

London 2002

Royal College of Art
Their postcard size anonymous exhibition

British Museum, new North American Indian gallery

National Gallery (free concert)

British Museum

National Theatre Foyer - Irish Folk Music

Pub in Camden (Bartok?)

National Theatre Foyer

Royal Accademy Foyer

Concert and dancing at the ICA

2003

Paris, 12ieme arrondisement

Paris - Christian Schad exhibition (one of my all time favourites)

Frankfurt

Postmuseum

(from books)

Stonebench in 'Liebighaus' (Sculpture Museum)

Kastanienallee

Citycenter from Rothschildpark

Churchyard, Peterskirche

Bornheim, Wingertstrasse

Eschenheimer Anlage

Eschenheimer Turm

(Copied from Book about Liebighaus Sculptures)

Berlin - Loveparade 2003

Loveparade (12 July 2003)

Kurfürstenstrasse (south of Tiergarten)

Rosenthaler Platz

Mauerpark

Kastanienallee

Müggelsee (Lake Müggel)

Oranienburger Strasse

Roof-top Party Arndtstrasse

Small Park in Neuköln

Sony Center near Potsdamer Platz

Südstern near Kreuzberg

In July 2003 I changed the paper format from A4 to A3. So the scans here are larger as well.

Berlin - larger Format

Greifswalder Strasse

Bonhöfer Strasse

Hagenauer Strasse (This is how all of East Berlin looked like a few years ago)

Roller Friedhof (cemetry)

View from Rotes Rathaus (a friend worked there at the time)

Monbijou Park (Oranienburger Strasse)

U-bahnhof (tube station) 'Eberswalder Strasse'

Airport Schönefeld - Tiny airport in the South-east.

London 2003

Pub in Camden

Smith Square

Ludgate Hill, looking up at St. Pauls

Kensington Gardens

Thames, Putney

Thames near Putney (Riverwalk to Hammersmith)

Putney bridge (quick sketch, because the flood suddenly caught up with me)

Same spot (well, a bit higer and dryer), looking west

Putney, tube bridge

Hamstead Heath

Putney, Wandsworh Park

Fitzroy Tavern

St. James Park

V & A, 2003 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Musical Instruments (above the Fashion room)

Chippendale Designs

Iron Gallery: Fireplates and 'Plaques' (English, French)

Casting Court with R. Whitbread cast of George Orwell's room at the BBC (not demolished) (the room)

'The Music Room' from Norfolk House, St. James Square, by Borra

Parlour Room from 11 Henrietta Street. - Plasterwork by Swiss-born craftsmen

Ossi Clark exhibition, in the background the Raphael rooms with a fashion show taking place. (Not particularly appropriate if you ask me).

More Ossi Clark. - The fashion room is always filled with art school girls

Main gallery, medieval sculpture (these are now in storage)

Part of the new British Galleries, this the 1810 room.

Persia Ware at the top floor.

Renaissance Horn (German) with fake (but glorious) stand (19th century)

Armour, English and German helmets etc. All in storage now.

Walkway above the Casting Courts. Has been redecorated now and filled with small sculpture. I (obviously) prefered the emptyness of this startling perspective.

Japanese Armour, 18-19th century but with older bits in it, like the helmets

Rodin

Italian and Spanish sculpture

Bauhaus chairs. This gallery is also being remodelled.

Lion and Face by Pisano

Donatello Room, with Della Robia Room in the background. This whole suite of rooms will be turned into a restaurant. Aparently asthetic nourishment is not sufficient.

The Ceramic Staircase, a bit of VA architecture that turns the museum itself into a work of art.

Chinese - the figure is 13th century, but has been completely rennovated several times since then.

Top floor again. These are Chelsea Porcelain.

2004

Science Museum

Overheard (two boys, one to the other, pointing to open-decked plane): 'Look, how can you sit in that? How cold would that be?'
Top: Junkers Bremen 1928, De Haviland Dragon 1932, De Haviland Moth 1934, Fokker 1932, Douglas 1936 - Middle: Armstrong Argosy 1926, Ju 52 1933, Haviland Dorads 1934
Bottom: Vickers 1920, Handley Page 1931

Symington's original marine steam engine 1788 - did a few experimental trips on a lake.

This was one of the great interiors in London, but it has now been destroyed, for commercial reasons. They wanted more space for their shop. Most of the engines are now gone. I'm glad I got this drawing done in time, but I had planned a whole series just of this room.

'Puffing Billy' c.1814, oldest locomotive extant. These early locs were still too slow for passengers and only used for mining.

Stephenson's 'Rocket', 1829, which constitutes the literally groundbreaking start of modern railway travel.

'Digitopolis' (stuff about computers) in the 'Welcome Wing'

Model of Newcomen Steam Engine from 1712, used for draining water out of mines. It can be seen as the grand-daddy of steam engines, although things only started making headway in 1777 with Watt's far superior invention. - Celestial and terrestrial globes, 1766 (King George III Collection, floor 4).

Models of 19th century Coastal and Fishing Craft: Lugger (c.1820), Mount's Bay Lugger, Oyster Smack. (the museum has a superb collection of model ships, see also 11b and 21b) 6a Not sure if this still exists, it was part of a series of introduction showcases at the entrance. Here are things representing 'entertainment' The tiny contraption underneath the loudspeaker is a flip book.

Box with things representing 'entertainment' The tiny contraption underneath the loudspeaker is a flip book.

This too no longer exists, sacrifeced for more shopping space. Not sure why they don't turn the whole damn building into a shopping mall and be done with it.

'Refrigeration'. The photo mammoth, found frozen in Siberia, is included to demonstrate the preserving power of ice. (floor 4)

Model Ladle Machine and Model Cornmill, used on a boat set in a currant. (both made in Lyon, 1753) (King George III Collection)

Garrett's Portable Horsedriven Threshing Machine, patented 1843-50

19th century wagons and Winnowing Machine.

First Marine Gas Turbine 1947 (Vickers, Manchester)

Model of 18th c. water-powered factory.

The first mass-market photo-cameras, from around 1900, including the Box Brownie (with a Brownie gremlin on the packaging).

Original Hardy Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1925 (Doesn't it look like a caged animal?)

Ship's Wireless Cabin (Marconi, 1910) - The one bit that gives away its age is the Victorian chair.

'Model Walkway' (elevated section on South side of main hall): Ariane V Launcher 1996, 'Talk with Barbie Doll' interactive toy 1997, Teaching Model Pelvis in 9 Months of Pregnancy 1998.

Santa Maria (1492) including a little Christopher on the deck. - Globe from the same year by Martin Behaim (Nuremberg). The thingy on the left is called 'Cipangu' (Japan) and the stuff on the right is Europe and Africa. America did not exist.

Flight Hall (floor 4)

Main Hall showing a bunch of small cars going up the wall (Fiat, Citroen, Morris Minor, VW Beetle, Saab), a suspended Lockhead Electron Airliner (1935), and the Ford Model T (1916). But no Daimler-Benz.

Anatomical models and Phrenology heads. (Phony science which associated mental characteristics with the shape of your head, nicely satirized in R.Töpffers graphic novel 'Monsieur Crepin', 1837)

Model of the 'Rocket', commissioned by the Museum in 1909 - top left: two peepshows of engineers achievements (incl. Brunel Tunnel), Parian Ware busts of George & Robert Stephenson, bottom right: personal relics of Stephenson.

Frankfurt 2004

Sachsenhausen (Thats the area south of the river Main) with view of 'Eschenheimer Turm', a fifties landmark.

Bockenheimer Tramcar Depot. No longer in use, unfortunately. While I was drawing a bunch of people went in to look around: location scouts for some film or TV project. (forgot to ask which film)

Naxos machine halls, delapidated industrial estate in the middle of town which is now used as a large second hand furniture market and a theatre group in the main building.

Inside: funiture to the right, theatre to the left.

Carpark in the 'Stadtwald' (municipal forest)

(Commission)

London 2004

Royal Accademy Summer Show

More Summer show: the architecture room

Richmond Riverbank - looking 'North', the stretch between Richmond bridge and the railway bridge.

Putney Bridge at low tide.

Richmond Bridge on bank holiday. The dots underneath the arch are people crowding the embankment.

Hammersmith Bridge

Victoria & Albert Museum, west entrance - it kept raining on and off, which is why I nipped into the Science Museum and drew...

...another ship, The Great Eastern.

Albert Hall and Kensington Gardens

Albert Memorial seen from east.

Serpentine Gallery (in Kensington Gardens)

Exhibition

The famous Millennium 'Wobble' Bridge, where I had to wait for my 'time-slot' at the ...

Edward Hopper Exhibition

Hopper (Nighthawks)

Hopper

Exhibition Greenwhich

View from Observatory Hill (a few meters from the Meridian)

Chiswick Park and House

Albert Hall and houses by the same architect who built Craghill

V & A 2004

Housefountain, bronze, Nuremberg 1560 and other bits of table utensils, right: Venus, also from a fountain, Augsburg 1530 (Room 27)

• Hylonome restrained by Lapiths by F. Bertos • Rape of Proserpine by V. de Rossi • Bust by F. Palma, c.1602/09 • Chimney Piece, Lombardy c.1514 (Room 50)

Donatello Room: • Chellini Madonna by Donatello c.1450 • Madonna & Child by Donatello, gilt terracotta, c.1455/60 • Bust (of chap with long name) by Antonio Rossellino 1456 • Column, Florence c1450/75 (R.16)

The ferociously Catholic Brompton Oratory, where I had a sudden revelation or realization regarding my drawing style. Not that it shows.

Well Head, workshop Buon, Verona marble, Venice c.1425/30 (22)

Della Robbia Room: • Bust of Christ by Giovanni della Robbia • Doorway by G.Gaggini, Slate, Genua 1472 (Room 13)

• Chalice, Faenza 1512 • Box, Guiltwood with Pastiglia Decoration, North Italian 1530/38 • 2 Impressions of a Seal by L.Perugia, Rome 1513/23 • Hammer, Brescia c.1550 • Meleager ('Il Villanello') by Antico, Mantua c.1480/1500 • Chimney Piece by workshop of Desiderio da Settignano, Grey Sandstone, Florence 1466/77 (outstanding) • Rondel: Adoration by Luca della Robbia, terracotta 1460/70 (Room 12)

• Coat of Arms Rondel for B. Heidelberger, 1475, probably Frankfurt • Adam and Eve by Loy Hering, South German, Eichstatt • Tankard by Peter Wiese, Zittau • Reclining Female by both Peter Vischer the Elder & the Younger, Nuremberg 1510/20 (Room 27)

Sepulchral Effigy of a Knight of the de Lucy Family, School of London c.1340/50, Lenses Abbey Kent (Room 24) - You can see the trees in the courtyard, which are now gone for a new scheme.

• Leda by Bartolomeo Ammanati, unfinished, Florence c.1535 (bought by Millais in 1865 as a work by Michelanglo) • Samson Slaying a Philistine by Bologna c.1562 (see also page 38b) (Room 21)

• Hercules and Anteus by Master H.I.S., Dutch, Boxwood c.1550/1600 • Dish, Venice c.1540 • Lucretia by J.Sansovino, Poplar wood / Linen / Gesso, Florence c1511/18 (Room 21)

Virgin & Members of Misericordia Guild by B. Buon, Venice 1445/50

• Virgin ascribed to G.Buora, Marble, Venice 1495/1500 • Putto in style of Pietro Lombardo, Marble, Venice c.1500 • Bust: Lady of Lupari Family by Alfonso Lombardi, Terracotta 1500/20 • Annunciatory Angel & Virgin Annunciate by Antonio Bregno, Istrian Stone, Venice 1550/75 (19)

• Holy Water Basin, Venice 1500/20 • Flagellation by Vecchietta, Siena 1460 (Room 15)

(sorry, forgot to note provenance, and now they are all in storage)

The Madonna is English, as is the Altar, or what's left of it after the Puritans had a go. (37, 38a all Room 24)

As you see, everything is being carted off.

Another view of Bologna's Samson. The little statuettes are also by him The two niche figures, Apollo (1577) and a Zephyr (1576) by Francavilla, right: Samson and the Philistines by V. Foggini 1749 (that's almost 200 years later than Bologna) (Room 21)

Della Robbia Room again: Kneeling Angels by Giovanni della Robbia • Virgin and Child by Andrea della Robbia • Stemma (the giant coat of arms) by Luca della Robbia 1466 (Room 13)

Royal Academy: Antique Roman and Greek sculpture from the Glyptotek Kopenhagen

• Christ Carrying the Cross, South Netherlands c.1490 • Entombment, German, Rhenish, c.1500 (Room 27)

• Zeus-Sabazios, Roman A.D.180/200 • Carpet, Turkey c.1500 (these carpets were used like table cloth today) • The frog is a pounce box, Padua 1500/25

Works by Bambaio. the little scenes on the right (youth holding a horse etc) are especially interesting (Room 20)

Della Robbia Room • Fresco: Piazza Maggiore Brescia by F. Ferramola c.1511 • Boy Playing Bagpipe by Andrea della Robbia c.1500 • Adoration, also by him c.1500/10 (Room 13)

• Thetis by Antonio Tarsia, Marble, Venice c.1715/30 • Saint John by Master of the David and St John Statuettes, Terracotta, Florence c.1500 • The Virgin with three Holy Women by Antonio Begarelli, Terracotta, Bologna 1530/31 (Room 15)

2005
Frocks at the V&A

(These are from a short exhibition, showing ancient and new designs side by side)

London/Stanstead

Stanstead

Frankfurt 2005

Ostpark

Natur Museum Senkenberg

Bornheim

Berlin 2005

Volkspark Friedrichhain

Mauerpark

Sand Scuptures ('Sandsation')

Exhibition opening

The chap with the cap is Fil (creator of 'Diddi und Stulle')

Ben Katchor giving picture story slide show

Lutz Göllner

'Comic Garten'

Krausnick Strasse (Berlin Mitte) (view from in front of Fire Bar)

Fire Bar

Adventskirche Danziger Strasse (next to Volkspark Friedrichshain)

Berliner Allee / Rossini Strasse (Berlin Weissensee)

Hagenauer Strasse (Prenzlauer Berg)

Schönhauser Allee, and Kastanienallee (at other side of car park)

Leipziger Strasse near Potsdamer Platz.
Ex site of famous nightclub 'Tresor' (has just been pulled down)

Christopher Street Day Parade - Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz

Party at 3 a.m.

5 a.m.

Oberbaumbrücke (Bridge connecting Friedrichshain with Kreuzberg, in other words East and West Germany )

nice corner in otherwise boring cemetery south of Volkspark Friedrichshain

Fire Bar

August Strasse - restaurant (in the 'Hinterhaus' and on the still existing bomb site at the front)

Kulturforum (Gemäldegalerie behind me), Potsdamer Platz at left

Workspace of would-be cartoonist

a bit of the Dom (Berlin Cathedral) and the infamous Palast der Republik
which replaced the torn down 'Schloss', which is due to be rebuilt on the same spot...

'Kreiskulturhaus Peter Edel', which used to be called Volkshaus (People's House)

Thunderbird (from 1962) Strassburger Strasse

Frankfurt

Bockenheim Campus

Natur Museum Senkenberg

Exhibition opening at Film Museum

Bornheim Kneipe

Main Riverbank

Goethe Universität

Frankfurt: 'Henninger Turm'

Frankfurt: 'Natur Museum Senckenberg'

Frankfurt, Bockenheim October 2006

(Bockenheim is a western 'borough' of Frankfurt)

Bockenheimer Warte (that's the little tower, an old gate to the medieval city wall) viewed from Gräfstrasse. On the left, the old tramway depot, now a theatre.