Although art museums are not really our thing, the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt is a pretty big deal and it was cold and raining on Sunday. So we went. And it actually was fairly nice. Elias slept through the Old Masters and didn't wake up until Expressionism. We saw a bunch of paintings that reminded us of family: Vermeer's "The Geographer" for Mike; and for Jim, Manet's "The Croquet Party". (I will let the rest of you puzzle that out: Jim knows why.) Jenny thought Boticelli's "Ideal Portrait of a Woman" looked like Kate Winslet. And it was nice to see that even in Monet's paintings, the babies leave their toys all over the floor (from "The Luncheon").There were a lot of paintings by a German artist Max Beckmann, who lived in Frankfurt for a while. We liked his paintings and thought they captured Frankfurt well. We stole two from the web to post here, but in fairness if we were allowed to bring in a camera, we would have had our own photos. The one in color above is the Eiserner Steg pedestrian bridge over the Main River. The sketch below is also the Main River, which cuts through Frankfurt.
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"I dreamt that I was talking to a friend about croquet and I told him that it actually has rules....and it makes it more fun!"
--Matthew Powell
Matt, I've played several times with some Utahns new to the sport, and I have to say that I'm winning over the state for croquet one player at a time!
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