#german immigrant

[paintingsandhistory]

A German Immigrant Inquiring his Way

Artist: Charles Felix Blauvelt (American, 1824-1900)

Date: 1855

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

Description

This amusing encounter between the Old World and the New has a troubling background. Throughout the nineteenth century, successive waves of immigration, especially from non-English-speaking Europe, alarmed many native-born Americans. In the 1850s ethnic riots broke out in New York and other cities. Virulently nativist politicians won elections in many states and even contended for the presidency. In 1855 when this picture was first exhibited, many people would have viewed both the newly arrived German family and the Black laborer as outsiders.

[itsbansheebitch]

My therapist SUCKS. I REALLY need a new one ASAP.

my family still feels the trauma from immigrating to America and she wants to "both sides" a genocide. The absolute disrespect is ridiculous. My family has rotted to its core because of fascism.

I'm not going to be anyone's punching bag. Either you be honest about how bad things are right now or you perpetuated toxic positivity culture and act like I'm fucking stupid.

My therapist ALWAYS has room for "have you tried spending less time online?" as if the problems I see online aren't IN THE REAL WORLD. Not to mention, online I at least have community with people who are also going through a rough time.

People irl will just act like you're stupid and say that everything is fine.

You don't get to "both sides" a genocide.

I need a therapist who isn't a monster.

[otherhazards]

As boring as I find the modern-day beers of Anheuser-Busch, this Superbowl ad about Adolphus Busch immigrating to America is awesome.

[loosjfer]

[jeffalessandrelli]

Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

The German-born artist brought his brand of modernism to the United States and was fascinated by all the different faces he could find here.

In 1925, a German immigrant named Winold Reiss was invited to design and illustrate an issue of the journal Survey Graphic devoted to Harlem, the new cultural capital of Black America. So he got together his conté crayons and pastels and went uptown to draw Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson and other eminences of what would come to be called the Harlem Renaissance, along with various of their less famous neighbors.

After the magazine was printed, though, his gallery, otherwise doing a brisk business for him, refused to show the work. In “The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist” at the New-York Historical Society, his sensitive, humane, occasionally brilliant Harlem portraits get their first museum showing here since appearing at the 135th Street Harlem Branch of the New York Public Library nearly a century ago.

[movies-derekwinnert]

Mr North *** (1988, Anthony Edwards, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton) - Classic Movie Review 5116

Mr North *** (1988, Anthony Edwards, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 5116

‘Miracles. Magic. Mayhem.’

Danny Huston’s 1988 film version of Thornton Wilder’s novel Theophilus North is a civilised and amiable entertainment.

Anthony Edwards stars as Mr North, the genial stranger who comes to a small, wealthy Rhode Island town in 1920s New England and has (literally) a shocking effect on people. It is rumoued that can heal people’s ailments and he gives shocks to those he…

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