Portraits: paintings of people, alive and dead.
Robert Edwin “Rob” Hall (1961 – 1996) has been a Mt Everest head guide in the 1990s. He was a New Zealand mountain guide and organized guided tours to Mount Everest with the guide agency Adventure Consultants yearly. By 1996, Rob Hall had completed four summits of Everest, more than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer and […]
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The most legendary persons who summited Mt Everest are often seen as the best climbers ever, the best mountaineers of the world. This is a set of twelve portraits of persons that I consider as Legends of Everest. The order in above overview was chosen for design reasons. Here is another one: Sherpa: Ang Rita,
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The Mt Everest catastrophe of 1996 is being discussed around the world since Jon Krakauer published the book „Into thin air“. It is presumed as one of the largest incidents at Mt. Everest, as ultimate proof that Mt Everest has its own will. Two films, three books and many interviews fall short that the highest
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South Korean actor Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, was found dead on the morning of September 8 2008 in his car in a potential suicide. He lit a bonfire in the car which probably led to asphyxiation. The interior of the car in which Ahn Jae-hwan died tells an elusive story. A story worthwhile being painted. A
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Sadness is part of live. Everybody knows unhappy or mournful moments. These are sad quotes people have written about those occasions. It’s better to burn out than to fade away Kurt Cobain, suicide note
These paintings shed light on mental disorders such as depression, bipolarity and anxiety attacks which are vey common on all the world. The diseases are tolerated, seen as inevitable, something one does not speak about. This is the first part of the set I plan to do. Two eye surgeries and lots of work put
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This set of oil paintings originated 2006, 2007 and 2017 shows people on public places and is up to date as never before! Banker side by side with unemployed, foreigners walking alongside German girls, homosexuals with baby buggy, father and daughter go hand in hand in times of pedophilia … The pictures show how the public
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Francys (Fran) Arsentiev got famous a little late: she was ambitious and reached the summit of Mt Everest as first american women without supplementary oxygen. She died on the way down from the summit. Fran, the Sleeping Beauty Her death has been internationally discussed, because the circumstances of her death were tragic and her dead
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This article shows paintings you might know already. I painted over them and I put them in context of the concept of “High Altitude”. To summit Mount Everest is only possible on certain days per year for most climbers. Even with weather forecast and supplementary oxygen life threatening situations can occur. Weather can change within
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Long Dorje is not a record holder, but he managed climbing Mount Everest well over 10 times which secures him a place among the first to achieve this.
