#mfaa

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

BERLIN - City Überblick

Berlin: KUNST UND BILD D-1000 Berlin 61

um 1993

[spurloser]

[xekutozoren]

MFAA dump

I decided to post the stuff I've been working on after some coaxing. Not really active anywhere anymore but I do still draw these babies when I need an emotional outlet.

I'm still considering whether I'll include the crossover AUs I've been rping. References are so hard to find uguu...

The bgs are from a bunch of artists on Pinterest. References are from the official anime and Positively Yours. If you're looking for details about a specific one, please DM me.

Thanks for checking my stuff out! These are just for fun and I don't make any money off of them.

[carbone14]

Un soldat de la 3ème Armée US dans l'église du château d'Ellingen où sont entassées les œuvres d'art spoliées par les nazis - Ellingen - Bavière - Allemagne - 24 avril 1945

© National Archives and Records Administration - 111-SC-204899

[sketchbookofbalderdash]

I'm currently doing some ink drawings for my first ever art festival! 🤩 It’s happening later this month. But the 4th of July is a good time to share this portrait of Capt. Edith Standen, a member of the MFAA.

I feel she must have been quite the individual as most of the Monuments Women were. I admire her sense of justice and her willingness to stand up if someone transgressed it no matter who that someone was. For example, she was one of the MFAA officers who signed the Wiesbaden manifesto on Nov 7, 1945. The manifesto was an act of protest against orders by the U.S. government to send German owned art to the United States. It was called “the only act of protest by officers against their orders in the Second World War,” and it declared,

"We wish to state that, from our own knowledge, no historical grievance will rankle so long or be the cause of so much justified bitterness as the removal for any reason of a part of the heritage of any nation even if that heritage may be interpreted as a prize of war."

She didn't stop at just signing the manifesto though, she also distributed it to various offices after the art had gone. After a long three years the paintings were sent back.

And I think that this is a good reminder to Americans about what makes America great. It's not our money, nor our weapons, it's the amount of discourse we can have with the government and the government listens, even if it takes three years. Without a government that listens we have nothing.

Happy 4th of July to all the fellow Americans out there! Be safe and be sane,

[chidrawsstuff]

Another OC~

This is Xaira Zoren, Xekuto’s cousin. She’s here to visit him at work to spend some time with him. (*^。^*)

I need to push myself to draw characters I’m not used to more often.

Background belongs to CAPCOM

[small-but-spunky]

Fake Attack Aesthetic

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

Berlin – Hauptstadt der DDR Берлин - столица ГДР Ministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten am Marx-Engels-Platz Министерство иностранных дел на площади Маркс-Энгельс-Платц.

Berlin: Verlag Felix Setecki, Berlin (V 11 50 B 6/67)

Foto: Vetter

1967