Adv. 13 next stop the third largest german city

COLOGNE or KOLN

Thursday: i got on a train early this morning, to start my journey back to Utrecht. At Koln i jumped off the train because i really wanted to visit the Cologne Cathedral. Its the largest and most impressive in Germany. Well... it was cool!!!

Jacqui is in Cologne studying for a semester, so i had coffee with her, which was really cool, good to catch up, see whats the hap. We walked through the cathedral, once again it was very chilly inside...
(left: jacqui and I outside Cologne cathedral)
It was a lovely winter sunny day, and i sat in the square outside the cathedral for a while and did some drawing, it was very pleasant and there were human statues making the people laugh.






(below: cologne cathedral)

























Then i visited the Ludwig Museum. This was cool!!! i wasnt sure what exactly what was there before i went, cos i just looked on the net the day before to see if cologne had anything good. Well i got a very pleasant surprise. It was a last days of the La Gare de Perpignan Salvador Dali exhibition. There were over 150 Dali drawings, prints, videos, paintings. IT WAS AMAZING!! Dali is another of my most favourite artists, so it was cool. (below: a selection of cool Dali paintings)












And the Ludwig Museum also has a very extensive pernament collection. SO BIG!! I ended up there for hours, and missed climbing the 500 or so stairs in the cologne towers (dang) but it was worth it. There was so much art there, im so arted out...
There was a large Pop art collection, with Litchenstein, Rauschenburg, Warhol, Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, James Rosenquist, Edward Kienholz
and a large cubist/surrealist era collection, a stack of Picasso drawings and paintings, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Giacometti, Hans Arp sculpture, Man Ray, Magritte, Yves Klein, Christo, Duchamp, Braques, Kasimir Malewitsch... it was a lot to take in.
my favourite though was a really beautiful short film by William Kenridge 1994, Felix in Exile. he does really amazing animated charcoal drawing films.

After dinner i got back on the train and arrived safe and sound in Utrecht.
I really loved Germany, which was really great for me, cos i had never considered it before.
I experienced so much in such a short time, and got some great thinking done on the trains for how im going to execute my art school graduating piece.

Now im back in the dreariness of Holland and must do some serious work cos im only here for another 8 weeks (eek) not much time...