quarta-feira, 19 de março de 2014

Everything ready for my individual exposition!

A member of the National Assembly in Frankfurt, Felix  Lichnowsky was quite a figure. Known as the Last of the Knights, he fought as a general in Spain during the Civil War of Don Carlos. Assassinated at the age of 34 by revolutionaries he was a close friend and mecenas of Ferenc Liszt. 
My grandmother Etelka and her sister photographed at the famous studio of G. L. Manuel Freres, in Paris, 1930,s.


Prague is a place I always visit while in Europe.

My grandfather Wilhelm was a good photographer, I remember him setting his camera on a tripod and running into the car to make this historical photo of three generations.

Edward Lichnowsky 1840

 A mask of someone without a mask.


Robert is my older brother, he suffers..
Michel Lichnowsky 1992

Benckendorf meets Lichnowsky in London, this time in 1973.

NY is another one of my passions

Praha

Ratibor, Poland

Robert

Countess Ursula

Self portrait 1999

My characters are allways behind something, but never hidden 

domingo, 19 de janeiro de 2014

Deterritorializations

How a line of state men became surfers and artists. 

This complex concept created by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri serves well when we want to understand the transformations that can occur in our lives.
For example how a line of state men (lawyers, judges, politicians, generals, priests and mayors) became surfers and artists.




 The name Lichnowsky is comonly known among students and mucicians because of their relations with artists like Mozart, Beethoven, Lizst and Chopin. Their line can be traced back to 1491 when Johan von Woschuts or Woszczyce (a region in Poland) aquired the city of Lichnov (in present day Czech Republic) and began calling himself: "the man from Lichnov" or Lichnovsky, as it is spelled in Czech.

Mechtilde Lichnowsky.

As we go through this images and reflect on how fate and destiny play an important roll in our lives, we can also understand that to live as an artist, we have to leave behind not only castles and distinctions, but the very values and prejudices that can be retrieving us from our own deterritorializations process!


 Rio de Janeiro 1930,s.
Wilhelm Lichnowsky on a vistit to his brother Michael (behind on center with hands on waist) who left europe and nazism behind and went to Brazil.


There is no interpretation, no theater, no wardrobe or scene direction, only the feelings and sensations of those who go through a deterritorialization process. Robert Edward 1993, photo, Eduardo Graf.


Mechtilde has left us hundreds of photos, I could do an exposition only with her, with her many lives, faces, productions and deterritorializations,


To be an artist we have to break the walls that surrounds us, go through in to the outside, leaving behind our identity. Michel Graf, San Diego, California 1989.
Who are them and what are they doing nowadays?


Berlin is full of life, one of my passions...

Beautiful Budapest

The relationship of the Lichnowskys with musicians and artists was and is that of friendship, even though in academic texts and journalistic articles, that seem to interpret history from a comtemporay point of view, their is an insistance in refering to it on a contratual and comercial basis, typical of the modern times human relations... Ferenz Lizst was a close friend of Felix Lichnowsky...

Prague





sexta-feira, 15 de março de 2013

A few recent works!

I dont usually do portraits! Photographer, film director and writer Stephen Weeks, Prague .

My cousin, Germany.

Prainha 1998, Rio de Janeiro.

Ursula Lichnowsky 2013

Surfer

Fisherman, Bali 2000

A Prince is Santa Tereza, Rio de Janeiro.

Hradec nad Moravici

Joyce

Michel

Berlin

1960,s

terça-feira, 29 de maio de 2012

Munich, april 2012.
I was in Munich for a couple of days and during a bike tour and a train travel to Marbach I took some photos.













quarta-feira, 16 de maio de 2012

Europe 2012


From the hundreds of photos I took while spending 20 days in Europe, these are a few I managed to work with this week. They are at least 1:20 meters in either height or width and can be printed in  Photo Paper or Canvas. I will be posting more photos as soon as they are ready. Hope you enjoy!



Psico Train Station, Berlin.

Berlin

Kreuzberg


Alexander Von Winterhalder


German Collage


Double Beauty, Berlin
Prague

Berlin

Prague

Berlin

Die Fabrik, Berlin


London


Berlin
Berlin

Poland