Happy New Year!

  Happy New Year to all my friends and readers

 New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch

"Einfach nur schön"
"Simply Beautiful"

I wish everyone a wonderful and healthy year 2023 with lots of books for all my fellow readers. Best wishes!

This year, my favourite contemporary artists, Hanka and Frank Koebsch, have issued another calendar with beautiful pictures that I will present to you every month. I always enjoy getting the new calendar and go through the pages and am fascinated by their beautiful paintings. If you are interested in their calendar, I can only recommend to order it already now, they are always sold out more than quickly.

Hanka and Frank say to this picture:
Tulips always inspire in spring. The first tulip blossoms with their play of colors are "simply beautiful".
(Tulpen begeistern im Frühling immer wieder. Die ersten Tulpenblüten mit ihrem Farbspiel sind "einfach nur schön".)

Read more here.

You can find many more wonderful pictures on their website here.

You can also have a look under my labels Artist: Frank Koebsch and Artist: Hanka Koebsch where you can find all my posts about them. 

Tulips are very special to me, I have read a few books about the tulip craze in the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Moggach, Deborah "Tulip Fever" - 1999
Pavord, Anna "The Tulip" - 2004
Dash, Mike "Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused"- 2000