Paintings by Blair + Laurie Fox PESSEMIER: Artnotes: (out of) The Rut

19 July 2025 Kranzberg, Bavaria GERMANY
NO Sunday Salon until 3 August

On the Walk Blair Pessemier acrylic/canvas 9 x 13" 23 x 33 cm 390.00

Everything changed. The Universe heard my plea for passion and joie de vivre, and VOILA! It’s been an extraordinary week in the Munich area. We spent time in the English garden with Berlino – just walking around, seeing other dogs, happy, fun people and eating lunch in the beer garden. It was an unfolding of the week to come.

Happy Dog on Vacation Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/pencil/vintage paper 12 x 8" 30 x 19.5 cm 90

We saw an extraordinary show at the Franz Marc museum in Kochel am See. The museum featured the world of the zoo, with terrific pictures by Marc, Macke, Klee, and many others painted between about 1900 and 1925. Honestly, it was one of the best art exhibits I’ve ever seen – and I will write about it in a separate article later on. It is a show I have not seen a single review of, and it makes me think maybe I could become the “reviewer of missed shows”, at smaller, off the radar museums in Europe. We continued on to lunch in another more sophisticated beer garden on the way home – Berlino had the steak and I had one of the many fresh-water fish from nearby lakes.

Kranzberg View Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9.5 x 13" 24 x 33cm 390.00

Thursday, we spent the morning sketching at the Glyptotek, which houses crazy prince Ludwig’s collection of Greek and Roman sculpture. We were positively welcomed by a woman who provided us with pencil sharpeners because we couldn’t bring our marker pens into the museum. I protested our single pencil would become dull and my needs were addressed.

From the Glyptotek Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/pencil/vintage paper 12 x 8" 30 x 19.5 cm 90 each

That afternoon was the highlight of our week, with a visit to the Bronze museum right here in downtown Kranzberg, where we are staying. We had the luck to be guided around by the most knowledgeable person. It turned out that our part of Bavaria was key in the Bronze Age. “At Bernstorf, a part within the municipality of Kranzberg, a Bronze Age fortification was found in 1904 by local historian Josef Wenzl. It was dated at around 1360 B.C. and is the largest known Bronze Age settlement north of the Alps. Most significant were finds of gold and amber objects which contained writings in Mycenean Greek Linear B.” (wikipedia) We learned so much about the Bronze age, of which I frankly knew very little. And that Kranzberg played such a key role in the development of civilization, linking East and West.

Yelllow Cow Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 12" 30 x 30 490.00

It has been astounding how long it took us to get into this vacation mode. Now I see the charm of here: how they leave a little wild flower patch in the yard for the butterflies; two different people at today’s flea market admired my “look”. This, after I could barely move my mind upon arrival. Talk about being in a rut! I feel like a sore tooth pried from a 70 year old jaw. It’s been a traumatic experience, but now I feel so much better l look forward to the wonderful future ahead.

The Flea Market Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 10.5 x 16" 27 x 41cm 490.00

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