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“The will to power is the driving force behind all human endeavors.”

Ernst Jünger

A pencil drawing of a bronze portrait bust “Soldatenbüste mit Stahlhelm” (Soldier with Steel helmet). This is a striking profile image of a Wehrmacht soldier, looking warily to the right, wearing an M16/18 helmet already with the national eagle on a white marble base. The bust is a late 1920’s sculpture and measures 36cm in height.

“In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

Albert Camus

A pencil drawing of a detail of “The Dying Achilles” statue (Ancient Greek: Αχιλλεύς θνήσκων), created in Berlin in 1884 by German sculptor Ernst Herter. This statue forms the centrepiece of the Achilleion Gardens located at Achilleion Palace (Greek: Αχίλλειο or Αχίλλειον) in Gastouri (Γαστούρι) on the Island of Corfu. Residence of Empress (Kaiserin) Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sisi. The palace was designed by Italian architect Raffaele Caritto and was built on an area of 200,000 m2.

© 2023 P-S Lindblom

White Boy Summer

A pencil drawing of “European Youth - White Boy Summer 2024 edition”.

“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.”

Martin Heidegger

A pencil drawing of “Jüngling mit Falken” - “The Young Man with the Falcon” statue, made in 1943 by German sculptor Johannes Ernst Born (1884 - 1958).

A perfect example of German Neoclassicism, depicts a warrior, heroic, standing naked, his right arm raised with a falcon resting with its claws clutching his hand.

Exhibited at the 7th German Grand Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst (German House of Art) in Munich.

This statue is focused around proportion, poise, and the idealized perfection of the human body. It’s aesthetic attitude is based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity, which invokes harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism.

The practice of hunting with a conditioned falcon bird is called falconry and a person who flies a falcon is called a falconer. Evidence suggests that the art of falconry may have begun in Mesopotamia, with the earliest accounts dating to around 2,000 BC.