CHARLOTTE HANMANN - danish artist

CHARLOTTE HANMANN

mother Inger Hanmann

Hanmann, Inger Frimann,
*1918, maler og emaljekunstner. *7.11.1918 i Stege.
daughter of Veterinary Surgeon Niels Christoffer Frimann Clausen and Dagmar Madsen. maternal grandparents

married in 9.9.1947 in Copenhagen the painter

Poul Frederik Hanmann, father
*20.9.1915 smst., †18.7.1981 smst.,
son of master painter Johan Hanmann and Antonie Christensen.
paternal grandparents
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Inger Hanmann
children Marianne Hanmann (1938), Charlotte Hanmann (1950).

Inger Hanmann's work is distinquished by it's decoration.
Her pieces use enamel on silver with the enamel in bold swirling colors in an abstract style. She is a painter, sculptor and ceramist and one of the foremost enamelists in Scandinavia.

Her early eduction was in applied art at the Tegne-og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder (Drawing and Applied-Art School for Women) and in fine art at the P. Rostrup Boyesens Malerskole (P. Rostrup Boyesen's Artists' School).
Her interest in enameling began during a trip to italy where she saw beautiful 15th Century pieces. Her enamel works were first produced commercially by A. Michelsen in the 1950s. Her work for Georg Jensen began around 1980, following Jensen's acquisition of A. Michelsen.

These days, Hanmann lives in Frederiksberg, Denmark and spends her time painting.

From GEORG JENSEN HOLLOWWARE, THE SILVERFUND COLLECTION,
David A. Taylor & Jason W. Laskey, 2003

Cité internationale des arts / Charlotte Hanmann

Charlottes grafiske værker

photographer sister Marianne Grøndahl born 1938

two nephews and a niece:-

Grøndahl, Jens Christian author
Jens Christian Grøndahl born 1959 in Lyngby and was trained as a film director, and is
one of the most celebrated and widely read writers in Denmark today. His literary work includes twelve novels, essays and several plays. Silence in October, published in 2002, is being translated into sixteen languages
Guardian Unlimited Books Review Waves of modernity
Back in Copenhagen, at Kierkegaard's graveside in the Assistens churchyard with Jens Christian Grøndahl, author of the excellent Silence in October
Novels tranlated into english:-
Silence in October (2000)Lucca (2002)Virginia (2003)An Altered Light (2005)

PHOTOGRAPHER THOMAS GRØNDAHL

Produktionskoordinator Pernille Grøndahl Hoppe
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

saturday afternoon shopping therapy

even the Peoples Express had to wait for a two mile traffic queue
the blues - Birmingham City football club was playing at Home

and the result was Birmingham 1 - 0 Sunderland

the market was wonderfully busy

click for full size
great cheese, farm fresh eggs and frozen fish too

7 oranges for £1 yes one



this stall holder has sold out and gone home

3:30 pm is a good time to shop for bargains









cyclists !

a rare sight in Birmingham

in the middle of the road looking back at the markets

the remains of a nineteen fifties theme pub
the Royal George
the squares were gun ports in a concrete hull





where I wait for the 97 bus back to Fordbridge and Chelmsley Wood and found two soup bowls (see below) After getting home I went out again to LIDL for ryebread.


think about these notices - and smile



Radio Times for the week 95 p

this plastic bag with four soup bowls was abandoned at the bus stop
two were broken
but two were OK freebie :-)





from LIDL £22 including the Speyside straight malt whisky for £12.50,
and two kinds of frozen fish


but from the Birmingham markets:-

four big pieces of chicken £2

3 kinds of cheese £2

brie
bonfire smoked
grated cheddar

all this for £5 50p

one piece of chicken (the other three frozen down)

two onions

3 carrots

added to the stock pot (pressure cooker)

really tender and tasty when eaten on Sunday

grey days

This morning we had a powdering of snow in Chelsmley Wood

the south of England has had two dry winters and is beginning to run out of water already for the coming summer.

weight wise I am having a blip
not enough exercise and going up and down around the 160 kg




I have been busy with an hour and a half on line at Solihull Central Library with http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com/ see Ancestry Library Edition
which ProQuest has partnered with MyFamily.com to create Ancestry Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today with unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom and now Canada too. Its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest Online
distributed by ProQuest Information and Learning I used a draft email in google mail to take notes of LAPHAM in Canada

With two buses each way I got home quite exhausted and so am making slow progress with updating my master database for the LAPHAM one-name study

I in particularly am beginning to work with

You are here: Search > All Genealogy Databases L

Laphams in America : thirteen thousand descendents including descendents of John from Devonshire, England, to Providence, R.I.,

by Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal,.

published Victor, N.Y.?. unknown. 1953?.

in the library edition this link was broken so I had to go in as above
iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=19594 is the reference number of the base
http://content.ancestrylibrary.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=19594

and change from dot com to the above

meanwhile my unquiet left leg wakes me up at about 2:30 am when I am alcohol free

which is why I am on line now

Digital postcards from a mobile phone

BBC NEWS Technology
"I wanted to be able to send friends and family a series of 'digital postcards' in near time - accounts of our holiday that people were able to read while we were still away, rather than a week after our return as is often the case with the traditional postcard . . . . .."

I have not got this - USA only I think

What Services Does Blogger Mobile Support?

The initial launch of Blogger Mobile will work with your phone if you are a US customer of Verizon, AT&T, Cingular, Sprint, or T-Mobile.

We will be expanding that list so if your provider is not on there yet, check back with us here.

blog windows

Through the window

argos and lidl

quick service on a Monday afternoon at ARGOS Chelmsley Wood
they instantly exchanged my old coffee machine with the cracked glassware for new

after the storm awaiting the bus back to Merton House

click to see the yellow Wirtgen 2100

home again to empty my trolley

that morning when I had my breakfast on the balcony I saw the flash of yellow as it got to work




when I got off the bus at LIDL
now I can't decide which picture I like best








home at last




with booty from LIDL
clothes rail
(assembled finally after a couple of weeks)

toolbox number 2
a mitre saw for making picture framse
diamond dust faced plate as a sharpening stone

I must remember not to shop on mondays :-)

coffee at last from the new machine

thanks to ARGOS

and time to get on line after a computer free MONDAY last

rubbish

Solihull

Independent Photographers

Birmingham Independent Photographers - Birmingham OpenGuide

power plane

it looks like the storm has gone by
from my kitchen window
I decided to walk to Argos in Chelmsley Wood

baby food at the pharmacy where I dropped off my repeat subscription.

the rubbish I saw is blogged click here




sun bleached dolls in the window








waitng to unload their tarmac
MOTORWAY MAINTENANCE !!! some miniature motorway and the Fordbridge Centre :-)


left 1970 rented and right 2006 privatized





POWER PLANE operates a fleet of Wirtgen machines

WIRTGEN 2100
victorian technolgy still surviving - compressed air driven road drill

The wind was blowing the other way and the rains arrived so I grabbed the next bus

beep beep

I heard this beep beeping beneath my kitchen window



but no the electrician could not reach the light on the corner of Merton House



so down and start over











drive out and in again the other way round










round we go !









success
two men and a van with a cherry picker to change one light bulb

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2006/02/motorized-telescoping-light-bulb.html

lidl was closed

On Sunday evening Lidl was closed and so I settled for some cider from a convenience store near by

A bit like a Seven-Eleven without the fast food counter







192.com - Results List:
"BAINS SUPERMARKET
40 EAST MEADWAY
BIRMINGHAM
WEST MIDLANDS B33 0AP"

I forgot the Birmingham Snow Hill BT Tower

As I walked through the dark and spooky tunnels by Newhall Street canal locks, I found myself at the foot of the 152 metre Birmingham BT Tower which I can see from my kitchen window

birmingham.skyscrapernews.com

the coloured lights on the dishes were added in 2003

The picture badly needed the gamma correction in IrfanView

gamma See gamma correction

A correction to the contrast of images and displays, performed by either software or hardware, and designed to correct for the fact that the intensity displayed on a cathode-ray tube is not linearly related to the input voltage.

canal tunnel wheel

I took the 97 bus in about an hour before sunset to Fazeley Stree, Digbeth to catch the GWR viaduct and the See Birmingham in a new LIGHT festival, which ends on the 26th February 2006

Floodgate Street with the pub and GWR viaduct in the last blogs

part of the new Birmingham Eastside Heritage trail










3 x 3 glass bricks in 1950ies



modern standard bricks and to the right the bigger victorian bricks










Medical Mission building




1935 lettering style









GWR viaduct and granite setts



two of the four guides hid from the camera









Typhoo Basin needed to be photographed in this light


Annukka Larsen from Finland was the lead designer









Curzon Street "Tunnel" in fact successive railway bridges as the mainlines to London and Leicester got widened and realigned


Sutton-Vane Associates designed the permanent instalation




















looking back west at the original railway bridge

and then I walked on eastwards through Ashstead Tunnel to Aston Junction

descriptionof walk in reverse order

cruising on the towpath

daylight pictures










Ashstead Tunnel is a a real tunnel

Ashted Lock, Ashted Flight and Ashted Tunnel













exit towards Aston








the world's largest canal system, the Birmingham Canal Navigation

- even now around 150 miles of canal exists between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is much easier to get at than was the case in 1980, largely because of Birmingham City Council's support for the canal's recreational use and the efforts of it and of the BCN Society in making improvements. The canals are the responsibility of the British Waterways Board.

I left the towpath at the Cambrian Wharf

and headed for the Birmingham Wheel by Symphony Hall

after about 2 hours footing it, I was glad to catch the buses home.

a more ambitious walk

The Grand Union Canal runs for 147 miles from Paddington right into the heart of Birmingham. As it links the two biggest cities in Britain it was a major transport link before the coming of the railways, although nowadays it is almost exclusively used by pleasure craft.

revisiting bridges

Bull Ring Birmingham



under the GWR viaduct by Moor Street station













victorian setts

cobbled street



















fine granite kerbstones












GWR viaduct
blue engineers bricks












their best bitter beer tasted better than the picture



an irish pub













Custard factory car park

present to me from Manja

V & A International Arts & Crafts Design a Tile

I was sent a specially designed tile by a visitor to the Victoria andAlbert Museum's International Arts & Crafts website.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

I love Leamington Spa

booking office
Mooor Street station Birmingham
looking east from the GWR viaduct Birmingham
Leamington Spa station
across the River Leam
Jephson Gardens
"Jephson Gardens" - Google Search
crocuses
Debt of Honour
bomb blast from the blitz in World War II hit this statue

and Queen Victoria only moved a little bit
old woodwork to be destroyed by redevelopment






River Leam
"river leam" - Google Search
where the circus bathed their elephants from their winter quarters
art deco doors at Leamington Spa Station
back at Moor Street Station

rainbow weather

wudu - BHX

Birmingham airport
ablution
wudu - Google Search

Urban Fusion Eastside Light Festival

brige railway to London EUSTON
122 fazeley Street MADE building
Saw tooth roof to give a gentle north light - not dragon's teeth in River Street
historic first medical mission
River Street junction
between Bordsley and Moor Street Stations
built in two stages


GWR Viaduct

over Floodgate Street


Custard Factory car park
Urban Fusion Eastside Light Festival: "The main theme of the Urban Fusion Eastside Light Festival, which runs from 10-26 February is 'Celebrating the Past; Sustaining the Future '.

Eastside, Birmingham's largest regeneration project, was chosen by the European Lighting Designers' Association (ELDA+) to host the festival because of its rich heritage of industrial buildings and surroundings .


The festival was preceded by a series of workshops in Birmingham run by ELDA, their first in the UK. The workshops were headed by six internationally renowned designers. The workshop technical co-ordinator was Martin Lupton of Building Design Partnership Lighting from London.

Birmingham City Council is supporting the Urban Fusion Eastside Light Festival because it believes that improved urban lighting schemes contribute to an improved environment for citizens and visitors. Urban Fusion is the two year programme of events featuring a diverse range of arts and performance, focusing on the physical regeneration of Birmingham and the region's living environment."

intermezzo

Manja loves this book which we bought in the Custard Factory

Concrete to Canvas:
Skateboarders’ Art

Jo Waterhouse and David Penhallow
ISBN 1 85669 457 7
£12.95 paperback
November 2005

soon to be demolished Digbeth Coach Station

and this 2 kebab nan bread

"concrete to canvas skateboarders art" - Google Search
published by Laurence King Publishing

NOT
Lawrence : King - architecture & design

Fused - Archive - Concrete to Canvas: www.coldpsace.net

note to Jo and David re

Coldspace.net. This domain is parked, pending renewal, or has expired.

at the custard factory

click for BIG GIANT


The Custard Factory or Custard Factory

opened in summer 2002
"custard factory" - Google Search has lots more related sites

Birmingham's revolutionary new arts and media quarter, is a slice of the ideal city

Well met at Framers Lucy Mclauchlan

below top left two Lucy McLaughlin originals - and right two digital prints

Framers


"Lucy Mclauchlan" - Google Search


Beat13 - Home

It all began with drawing.

Musical instruments next.
Then came the computers.
Beat13.co.uk was created in Birmingham, UK, 1999.

Making friends, music, and things happen are our favourite hobbies.

site:beat13.co.uk - Google Image Search

The Artists
Founders
Matt Watkins
Lucy Mclauchlan
Contributors
Al Murphy
Tim Watkins - zombieflesheatingbeat13er
Satori- dj/producer
Guy Carlos- DJ/Producer
Glenn Anderson
Energy107
Jamie- cartoonist extraordinaire

clusta_construction made Framers website
BUT
Clusta Ltd. are currently re-designing their website.
While the site is evolving please use the visual links to see a selection of works including our new showreel
.31-41 Bromley St Birmingham Tel:+44 (0) 121 604 0004 hello@clusta.com

Zombie Flesh Eaters

thank you manja

no more boxes

mornings work

after dawn so straight into moving boxes to make space



and opening a way to these shelves


and time for breakfast and the Winter Olympics from Turin

dawn experiments good for wallpaper

progress

Manja took charge
vacuum cleaned
and it all looks much better

manja saw sunrise and sunset

all these Sony phonecam images by guest photographer Manja Kristoffersen

her bedroom has white painted walls

AFTER SUNSET and shopping

after shopping in the late afternoon we left the maw of the sea monster

AKA Selfridges Birmingham

looking down made her knees wobbly

car park roof
looking west - St Martin's church Birmingham Bullring and the Rag Market Hall

all the above Sony phonecam images by guest photographer Manja Kristoffersen

manja was cold and tired

Manja was cold and tired and after shopping at the open air market, we had two and a half hours to spend window shopping until her off peak West Midlands Centro bus pass was valid

from where we sat the late afternoon light was on Selfridges on the third floor of the Birmingham Bullring shopping mall.

the new east Birmingham is growing visibly

I love this suspended glass roof

then down and out over the old bridge to the Pallisades shopping mall

looking north with the BLING of the shiny metal of New Street Odeon sign

over an hour later the suspended glass roof has become a smoky mirror, with the angled reflections suggesting a science fiction city of the clouds

after window shopping in Selfridges,

we decided to explore the bent bridge to the car park by Moor Street station

most of the old GWR bridges survive below to the east

looking west and a a double decker bus looks tiny

longer west I could spot the half ellipse of the gable windows of the Rag Market

the lizard skinned Selfridges took the mixed light from street and floods

looking back eastwards at the bridge from the open top deck of the car park

Manja Kristoffersen, photographer at work.

Manja is really freezing cold but moving on to snap one more Sony phonecam picture

colour faked up with gamma correction in Irfanview

and back to the lifts and down to the 97 bus

manja has landed

yesterday she flew CPH to BHX by SAS


we ate pizza saw Geisha Girl Film following 15-year-old Yukina as she leaves home and travels to Kyoto to embark on the arduous training to become a trainee geisha girl, otherwise known as a maiko







Manja slept long so I breakfasted alone on a sunny balcony

we went for a walk past BIG JOHN
to Project Kingfisher





around sunset we dropped in on Kingshurst City Technology College
and heard what courses they offer 16 to 18 year olds
and the North Solihull Sports Centre
about time I started swimming again

and Manja made the salad and I microwaved a frozen pizza..

nearly ready

this grey weather persists

these Lundia shelves were got by me in about 1953 as seen in the Design Centre 28 Haymarket London
- in 1987

but they are too tall here and must be cut down


















'Lundia' wooden shelving systems by Remploy



50 years ago we sharpened saws
now use and throw away when blunted.

and get new from B & Q

these fine chairs of leather on chrome plated steel frames are called director's side chairs
and would be used for meetings in a company director's personal office



the object of this exercise

more floor space

my tool box and the only newly invented woodworking tool in the last 2ooo years

the surform which is a a rasp-like tool which works like a cheese grater.










and the off-cuts

I have moved my dictionaries here

and my beautifully bound copy of
Dagligt Liv i Norden: i det sekstende AarhundredeFjerde og Illustreret Udgave Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag København, Kristiania 1914DAILY LIFE IN THE NORTH gives a good idea of Nordic life and customs from the Vikings to the coming of steam power. 14 Volumes








and the off-cuts ended in the scrap box,

which is a key feature of any workshop, and from which you get wood for small jobs or toy making.

Northern Grit

I had to go to Solihull to collect Bristol Trade Cards a book on inter-library loan



By chance I found myself at opening night on Thursday 2nd February from 6pm – 8pm of the photo exhibition Northern Grit by Pat Maycroft


The photographs that form the ‘Northern Grit’ exhibition by Pat Maycroft are about discoveries, contemplations, memories and histories of a forgotten world.


The images provided the writing group ‘Vane Women’ with inspiration for their creative writing and extracts from their resulting poems are presented alongside the photographs that are on display. Vane Women: Northern Grit

The exhibition runs in the gallery at Solihull Arts Complex from Monday 30th January – Tuesday 7th March and everyone was welcome to come along to the opening night on Thursday 2nd February from 6pm – 8pm.

To compliment the exhibition, the Vane Women writing group will be running a day of creative writing workshops at Solihull Arts Complex on Saturday 11th February from 2.30pm – 4.30pm.

There is also an opportunity between 1pm and 2pm for people to join Vane Women as they read their work aloud. Solihull Council - Press Releases

old friends

Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Solihull
The Square,Solihull,West Midlands,B91 3RF
was formerly known as the George Hotel, and is situated in the centre of Solihull opposite St Alphege Church, and with one of the oldest bowling greens in the country, it dates from the 16th century,



When the Solihull Central library and art gallery closed at 8:00 pm
I walked past the Mason's Arms

compare with the "Lapham" arms

to the George which is my local,

even though at £3 + a pint and fighting the flab I no longer go there every evening.

Three of my very best friends were there, who had helped me enormously in 1999 and 2000 when I was coping with my mother's illness and death


Keith has retired from the Rover but as an old soldier, like me, we enjoy chatting






and Christine,

who runs the highly recommended B&B/Guesthouse

Yew Tree House (Google Local map link).

5 Fircroft

Solihull

West Midlands B91 1JL, Telephone: (0121) 7052417.



Dorothy still going strong !

too gray outside

clearing the guest room and moving furniture





clearing space by the computer
but the shelves are wobbly and need more screws

note the CPAP machine by the bed - for my obstructive sleep apnea