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The Red Baron and a comrade.A commission. 9 x 12 black ink on canvas paper. Von Richthoven and Wolff.
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YES, I KNOW WORLD LOTHAR AND MANFRED RICHTOFEN BROTHERS!!!!!
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*mutters thickly* Gad, it's sheer murder to send a mere boy up in a crate like that....... 7@=Q
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You think you'll get anybody with a fully developed brain to do it?
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I'm in the middle of doing a new commission with pilots for another DAer. I'll post it when I get it done (Sunday? Monday?)
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beautiful black and white. i keep coming back to this one.
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You'd be surprised at how common taking tophies from the enemy was and at the time it wasn't considered to be particularly wrong or barabaric. So Richthofen was hardly an unusual case. There are also plenty of stories about him respecting his enemies both the ones he killed and the ones he captures alive.
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I was confused by this reply before I realized you were actually replying to: [link]
(Rant alert: you hit a nerve).
Our Boys still take ears and scalps in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Many of them trophy-hunt in their own country, and wear horrible t-shirts equating women with deer and deer with a human enemy. This is in the feudal tradition of using hunting to replace and train for war. At least the WWI Germans recognizd that.
I've nothing against hunting or fishing -- I love me some elkburger or fried smelt -- but when they chop out the backstrap steaks and throw the rest of the cookable ribcage in the creek (AGGH!!! STEWMEAT!!!), or catch-and-release, they're only tormenting animals for the fun of it. We're in trouble becausee we don't respect our food -- or the four-legged people who die so we may live.
If we're not careful, I could go off into my bumper sticker:
"Bring back the Great Herd!" Which I haven't made yet, but we should have a contest about.
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You get that creepy Prussian/Uhlan expression just perfectly--There is something metallic about von Richthofen. I always liked Oswald Boelcke, who made a point of visiting the pilots he'd shot down in the hospital with gifts.
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Well, what they were doing WAS killing each other. Richthofen was a hunter; he may have been much more businesslike about it.
The business of the aristocracy after all, was war.
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He took trophies, though! As I said, just that uhlan frisson of savagery. The truly dangerous people are the scientific ones, such as Guyenemer or Micky Mannock.
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I read somewhere Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was quite a guy. Ah here it is: [link]
For anyone who wants to read about the Red Baron. "Freiherr" meaning "Free Lord".
BTW sometimes we have a bi-plane that buzzes our Flea Market. He did today. I point him out to people and tell them he's the Red Baron and to look out for Snoopy. 
NICE work on this. As always.
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And tell me he didn't look like a young Robin Williams. A chance was lost. "Free Lord" is the only thing English can do with the word, but the usual translation is "Baron." Not really the same social position; my people were minor barons, and they were certainly not as independent as the German Barons.
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Huh. I once thought it was just a cool nickname.
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Awesome! And it really does look like the two - knew it even before I read the description. Heh.
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I got sent good photos.
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Heh, yeah, I love it when I get a good photo - it makes it easier.
The portrait I have of Lothar in my gallery I did from a photo.
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George was just reaching into his jacket to get his spectacles when "The Baron" came up beside him and said "So, what did the bartender say to the horse?"
George was still lost in thought. He watched that fine lass walk away into the officers mess. He muttered under his breath. "What a fine ass."
"No!" the Baron said "Why the long Face!" He laughed and walked back to his hangar.
George just stood there in the snow, remembering that young lass in the Jodpurs.
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AGH! I love bad jokes. Or pithy sayings. My husband said, "Henry James chewed more than he bit off."
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Bad jokes are the best. Bad jokes told by Baron Rich are even better. I was going through old photos and realized that the one and only time we ever met face to face was at a convention, and you auctioned off an unseen painting. Damn the years are catching up.
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I didn't do many auctions -- so I can imagine.
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Autumn leaves.... ephemeral. Fragile. So short of season. Like these men's lives.
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Like the cherry blossoms. The older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that life is ephemeral.
Have you seen the new Red Baron movie? It was released in the EU a couple weeks ago, but I haven't seen any listings for it locally.
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No, I haven't. Send a link when you find it.
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