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2021-10-08 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 33/n
The Book of #Chess (Liber de ludo scacchorum, ca. 1300)
Author: Jacobus de Cessolis
Straßburg: Knoblochtzer, 1483
Woodcuts, touches of watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
#VisualArts #IlluminatedIncunable #woodcut #JacobusDeCessolis1483 #MiddleAges

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2021-10-07 04:00:00

#ChessAndPolitics 2/n
A game at chess (Caricature of Napoleon I.)
Artist: C. Williams (1797-1830) (attr.)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Bodleian Library Curzon b.3(154)
Cf. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c1b9c0…
#chess #politics #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #cartoon

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2021-10-06 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 32/n
J. H. W. Tischbein
Conradin of Swabia and Frederick of Austria receiving their death sentence while playing chess
Oil on canvas
1784
Ducal Museum, Gotha, Germany
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #TischbeinJHW #Tischbein1784

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-10-02 14:29:32

The house Schweglerstraße 10 in Vienna where on January 22nd, 1885, Josef Emil Krejcik was born. #Chess

Xerses phus

2021-10-02 04:10:00

#OnThisDay #Duchamp
Playing chess with a nude, or: Naked #chess
a) Eve Babitz vs. Marcel Duchamp, 1963, 📷Julian Wasser
b) @JenShahade vs. Jason Bretz, 2009, 📷 Daniel Meirom
#MarcelDuchamp #EveBabitz #JenniferShahade #ChessInVisualArts #photography
Cf. en.chessbase.com/post/jennifer-…

Xerses phus

2021-10-02 04:00:00

#LegendsPlayingChess 10/n
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
#OnThisDay in 1968 the French artist and chess player died.
#chess #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #ChessPlayer #artist #legend #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #photography #PerformanceArt

Xerses phus

2021-10-02 04:05:00

#LegendsPlayingChess 10a/n
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
#OnThisDay in 1968 MD died.
#chess #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #ChessPlayer #artist #legend #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #photography #PerformanceArt

Xerses phus

2021-10-01 04:05:00

#ChessInVisualArts 30/n
King and queen playing chess
Illustration from the 'Schachzabelbuch' by Konrad von Ammenhausen
Germany
15th century
British Library, London; Add. 11616, f.5v
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #Schachzabelbuch #KonradVonAmmenhausen

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2021-09-30 04:00:01

#LegendsPlayingChess 8&9/n
David Oistrakh (1908-1974) and Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
#OnThisDay [N.S.] in 1908 David Oistrakh was born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #SergeiProkofiev #composer #pianist #conductor #DavidOistrakh #violinist #legend
📷en.chessbase.com/post/the-1937-…

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2021-09-29 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 29/n
Ludovico Carracci (attr.)
Chess players
Oil on canvas
c. 1590
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #LucovicoCarracci #CarracciLudovico #Carracci1590

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2021-09-27 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 28/n
Christian Richter
Johann Friedrich I. (background: Johann Friedrich I. in captivity playing chess while receiving his death sentence)
Oil on panel
c. 1635
Friedenstein Palace, Gotha, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #painting #Richter1635 #Hanfried

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-26 13:09:43

One of Georg Marco's wills. In 1916 Marco had married his housekeeper Johanna Szamuely. #Chess

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2021-09-25 04:00:00

#LegendsPlayingChess 7/n
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
#OnThisDay [N.S.] in 1906 he was born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #DmitriShostakovich #composer #pianist #genius
📷 British Chess Magazine, Nov 1946
📷 Nicholas Tikhomirov
Cf. chess.com/blog/RoaringPa…

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2021-09-24 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 27/n
Daniel Garber
Mother and Son
Oil on canvas
1933
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
#chess #VisualArts #painting #GarberDaniel #Garber1933

Xerses phus

2021-09-23 17:00:00

#LegendsPlayingChess 6/n
Ray Charles (1930-2004)
#OnThisDay in 1930 he is born.
#chess #ChessPlayer #RayCharles #singer #songwriter #composer #legend
📷The Ray Charles Foundation
📷Neal Preston via Pinterest
📷youtube.com/watch?v=lj1gf0…

Xerses phus

2021-09-20 08:46:42

@Ingram_Braun Thanks!
Here the copy:
Stadtmusem, Leipzig
#ChessInVisualArts 25a/n #chess #VisualArts #painting #Hanfried

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-20 07:10:28

The signatures on the will of Ignaz Deutsch (1850-1914), the father of Otto Erich Deutsch. Ignaz Deutsch's lawyer, who signed the will as a witness, was chess master Dr. Julius Perlis. #Chess

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2021-09-20 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 25/n
Jan Cornelisz #Vermeyen (attr.)
Johann Friedrich I. in captivity plays chess with a spanish guard
Oil on panel
1548
Friedenstein Palace, Gotha, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #painting #Vermeyen1548 #Hanfried

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-18 19:25:13

The empty space between the two stones in the foreground marks the grave of chess master Dr Maximilian Fleissig (1844-1919), elder brother of Bernhard Fleissig. #Chess #Vienna

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-17 20:25:39

The grave of chess master Bernhard Fleissig #Chess

Xerses phus

2021-09-17 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 24/n
Entr' Acte
Director: René Clair
Starring: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, ...
1924
France
#chess #VisualArts #film #SilentFilm #DuchampMarcel #MarcelDuchamp #ManRay #RenéClair #ChessPlayer #EntrActe1924
Film online: bit.ly/38HzVzG
Chess scene: 4:18 ff.

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2021-09-16 04:00:01

#LegendsPlayingChess 5/n
Humphrey Bogart
#chess #ChessPlayer #HumphreyBogart #BogartHumphrey #Bogie #actor #legend

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2021-09-15 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 23/n
Mickey Mouse
German edition: 12/1981
Micky Maus
Lern-Schach
#chess #VisualArts #design #comics #MickeyMouse

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2021-09-13 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 22/n
Miniature of Ulysses playing chess in his tent during the Trojan War
in: L'Épître Othéa by Christine de Pisan
France, Central
c. 1410-1414
British Library, London; Harley 4431, f.133
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #Ulysses #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript

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2021-09-10 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 21/n
Honoré Daumier
Chess players
Oil on canvas
ca. 1863-1867
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, France
#chess #VisualArts #painting #DaumierHonoré #Daumier1863_1867

Xerses phus

2021-09-08 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 20/n
A game of chess
Mirror case
Ivory
French (Paris)
about 1300
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase1300 #MiddleAges

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2021-09-07 14:00:01

#LegendsOfChess 3/n
François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
#OnThisDay in 1726 the French #composer, #ChessPlayer, 1st (unofficial) world chess champion and mastermind of modern chess Philidor was born.
#PhilidorFrançoisAndréDanican #Philidor #chess #WorldChessChampion

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-09-03 12:23:25

How did the Jewish composer Ignaz Brüll sign his letters to friends? "Dein Nazi". #Chess

Xerses phus

2021-09-03 08:11:28

#ChessInVisualArts 18a/n
Julian Wasser
Duchamp playing chess with a nude (Eve Babitz)
Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1963
#chess #VisualArts #photography #MarcelDuchamp #DuchampMarcel #TheLargeGlass #EveBabitz #ChessPlayer #WasserJulian #Wasser1963

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2021-09-01 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 17/n
Moritz Retzsch
The chess players
Oil on panel
1831
Private collection
#chess #VisualArts #painting #RetzschMoritz #Retzsch1831 #ChessPlayer

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-25 11:38:39

The illustration of the game Maroczy vs Euwe (Scheveningen 1923) from Savielly Tartakower's book "Die hypermoderne Schachpartie" was inspired by the style of the Russian avant-garde. #Chess

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2021-08-25 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 14/n
Gerhard Marcks
Chess players
Bronze sculpture
1944
Screenshot: "Deutschlandspiegel" 100/1963, 05.02.1963, Federal film archive (Bundesfilmarchiv), Berlin, Germany
bit.ly/3ybGPrY
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #MarcksGerhard #Marcks1944 #ChessPlayer

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2021-08-24 04:00:01

#LegendsPlayingChess 3/n
Stanley Kubrick
#chess #ChessPlayer #KubrickStanley #StanleyKubrick #FilmDirector
Watch the fantastic video essay "What Chess Taught #Kubrick About Filmmaking": youtu.be/ohFIPUV4NCQ

Xerses phus

2021-08-23 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 13/n
Codex Manesse
Written and illustrated between 1304 and 1340
Produced in Zürich, Switzerland
Folio 13r, Markgraf Otto von Brandenburg
Heidelberg University Library, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #CodesManesse #MiddleAges

Chess Unlimited

2021-08-22 07:36:41

r/chess: A chess set from the 15th century reddit.com/r/chess/commen… #chess

Xerses phus

2021-08-20 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 12/n
Sofonisba Anguissola
The game of chess (or: Portrait of the artist's sisters playing #chess)
Oil on canvas
1555
National Museum, Poznań, Poland
#VisualArts #painting #AnguissolaSofonisba #Anguissola1555

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-18 17:24:44

A signature of Hans Kmoch when he was still "Johann Josef". #chess #chesshistory

Xerses phus

2021-08-16 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 10/n
Unknown artist
Apes playing chess
1st half of the 14th century (?)
Naumburg Cathedral, Germany; north side of the east choir
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #ArchitecturalSculpture #NaumburgCathedral #MiddleAges

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2021-08-13 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 9/n
Lucan von Leyden
The game of chess
Oil on panel
ca. 1508
Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #painting #LeydenLucanVan #Leyden1508

Norbert Wallet

2021-08-10 08:43:50

Da ist es endlich. Zusammen mit FM Jürgen Brustkern habe ich im Beyer-Verlag ein Buch über das traditionsreichste Schachturnier der Welt geschrieben. Es stellt Kämpfer, Künstler und Königsjäger vor und ist eine Einladung zur Entdeckungsreise...
#Schach
#chess
#chesshistory