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Boje Postel
Boje Postel (8 April 1890 – 6 January 1980) was a German-British painter. Early life Boje Postel was born on 8 April 1890 in Hemmerwurth in the rural west of Schleswig-Holstein in the north of Germany. He was the son of a farmer. Training as an artist and early professional life At the age of 14 Postel discovered his love for the arts after he had seen paintings by Édouard Manet and Max Liebermann. At this age he started spending his time in the countryside painting and drawing. When he finished school in 1908, he left the countryside to go to Hamburg to study with various painters including Arthur Siebelist. Postel avoided the First World War due to the fact that he suffered from tuberculosis. It took him quite a bit of time to recover. Towards the end of the war he moved on to study in Munich. A 1918 drawing shows a rural scene in Schwabing/Munich. Postel then moved onto Berlin and undertook private studies with Wilhelm Mueller-Schoenfeld. He was also taught by Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Postel
B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''bee'' (pronounced ), plural ''bees''. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. History Old English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc , meaning " birch". Beorc dates to at least the 2nd-century Elder Futhark, which is now thought to have derived from the Old Italic alphabets' either directly or via Latin . The uncial and half-uncial introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' . These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
