A street in the city of Bonn with the Rhine river in the background, January 2024.
Street Scene on the Rhine
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The “Lost River”
Ryan Goslings 2014 movie "Lost River" is most of all a portrait of urban decay and our fascination with decay in a broader sense. The film juxtaposes the stylized display of bodily mutilation and destruction in a Grand Guignol style cabaret on the one side and the at...
Breach of St. Anthony Dike in 1651
Jan Asselijn (1610–1652): "Breach of St. Anthonis-Dike near Amsterdam", 1651. "During the night of 4-5 March 1651 the Saint Anthony’s Dike was breached near Amsterdam. Jan Asselijn portrayed the fiercely flowing water with a strong sense of drama. The billowing cloak...
Kota Ezawa: Flood (2011)
Kota Ezawa (*1969)Flood, 2011, from the gallery website by FRAENKEL Gallery.
Nürnberg flooded, 1909
The Bavarian city of Nürnberg (Nuremberg) has been flooded quite often over it's history. The flood of 1909 is particularly memorable and the most severe flood that has been documented in photography. The visual similarity to Venice, apparent in pictures like these,...
Drawing Extreme Conditions – Emma Stibbon
In an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2023, contemporary British artist Emma Stibbon exhibited her own wood carving "Collapsed Whaling Station" alongside a selection of works from the Royal Academy collection. All art works depict extreme weather events...
“The Eddystone Lighthouse, during a Storm”
The image shows the painting by painter William Daniell of the Eddystone Lighthouse off Rame Head in Cornwall, England during the ‘Great Storm’ of 1824. Daniell exhibited the painting for the first time in 1825.
Flooding of the Nile as depicted in 1848
"Statues of Memnon at Thebes, during The Inundation", a lithography from 1848 by Scottish artist David Roberts. It appeared in Roberts book on the Nile region entitled "Egypt & Nubia" published in London the same year. The flooding of the Nile has been an...
Put your money on Atlantis
In times like these, what the world needs is good humor and good counseling. And this company apparently offers both. Because if you name your business consulting company after a city that spectacularly sank into the sea as a punishment for the hubris of it's...
Man appears in the Holocene
In my search for books that could be considered "climate literature" or "climate change narratives" I recently came across a volume by Swiss writer Max Frisch, entitled "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän" (english edition titled "Man in the Holocene"). Frisch wrote the...