This short poem was composed after Meingast rode the new steam tram in Vienna in 1887: Too close and too many and there is no near handle/and we know all of it will/lurch soon and our usual unthought/equilibrium will flop to an uneasy spread of weight. I lean against this door despite/ the sign and […]
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Exciting news, all! I’ve located a manuscript of Meingast’s 1903 poem for children, “Entartete Entenarten.” It’s in a library in Lecce— hopefully I’ll be able to look at it this summer. I remember reading that Kolo Moser wanted to do illustrations to accompany the text. Does anyone know whether Moser actually painted anything?
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Meingast travelled to Amsterdam in 1885 to go to the Rijksmuseum, which had just moved into its new building (that “disorienting hodgepodge of Gothic and Renaissance elements”). No one is sure which canvas he was “watching.” A triptych/ three sitting or leaning before an aqua green, faintly mottled curtain/without creases/ a painterly imposition on reality, like the symmetry of […]
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