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Both philologists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm not only published fairy tales, but also attempted to compile a German dictionary.

Both brothers died before they were able to finish the entry for the letter F. (For



🎨 Willy Pogany

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2023-02-21

Illustration for Parsifal by
🎨 Willy Pogany

Percival was the original hero in the quest for the Grail but (according to wikipedia) replaced in later literature by Galahad. (Am not an Arthurian expert so was interested to discover this nugget of info)

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2022-09-06

Willy Pogany – Parsifal

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2022-09-05

‘The Welsh Fairy Book’, 1907 by William Jenkyn Thomas
Illustration by Willy Pogany
https://t.co/OYYoM40Mu4

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2022-08-23

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cites a watering hole as:

a pool where animals drink, or in human terms, a favourite pub or bar.

The latter looks more appealing today.



🎨Willy Pogany

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2022-07-19

Willy Pogany's Illustrations for Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland - 1929 - : https://t.co/gAc34V6ocO

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2022-01-11

ウィリー・ポガニー
William Pogany (1882–1955)

ハンガリー出身のイラストレーター。
ロンドンでハラップ社の《ブックス・ビューティフル》シリーズを手がける。のち渡米。
ポガニーの画風は多様だが、画像は
《ブックス・ビューティフル》シリーズ中のワーグナー『ローエングリン』(1913)の挿絵。

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2021-11-21

(hideback)
Willy Pogany (Hungarian, 1882-1955)
Sheet Music for Parsifal, circa 1912
via More Parsifal

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2021-09-10

Willy Pogany, Parsifal sheet music

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2021-07-06

Willy Pogany's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Harrap, 1909). One of 25 copies on vellum.

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2021-04-20

Illustration from Walter De La Mare’s Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems by Dorothy P. Lathrop (1922)

Illustration from The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner by Willy Pogany (1913)

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2021-04-09

This is the only known self-portrait by Margit Pogany, the Hungarian-Jewish painter identified as “Mademoiselle Pogany” in sculptures by Constantin Brancusi. Pogany met Brancusi in Paris in 1910 and soon commissioned him to create a sculpture of her. 1/2

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2021-03-13

"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it and in it."
~ Emily Brontë

🎨 Willy Pogany

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2020-07-26

a list of my favorite art would be 100 pages, so instead here are 4 works that have influenced me:

1. el greco, view of toledo, 1599-1600
2. klimt, adele bloch-bauer I, 1907
3. durer, st jerome in his study, 1514
4. brancusi, mademoiselle pogany II, 1920

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2020-04-14

This is the only known self-portrait by Margit Pogany, the painter identified as "Mademoiselle Pogany" in sculptures by Brancusi. She arranged to sell her painting to the museum so that it could be kept w/ Brancusi’s portraits of her. https://t.co/eDAIII0dcp

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2020-03-24

'The Sirens Temptations of ~ Willy Pogany, 1948.

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2020-02-26



"There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good."
~Jeanette Winterson


1. Alice Helena Watson
2. Willy Pogany

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2019-11-12

Y de paso descubro estas ilustraciones maravillosas, también húngaras:
(1 y 2) E. Rachev, (3) Willy Pogany, (4) Hary János.

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2019-11-05

Goethe's 'Faust'. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.

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2019-10-17