OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL IN JAPAN

The cherry trees will soon begin to bloom  in northern Japan, so heavily damaged by earthquake and tsunami.

Cherry blossoms symbolize clouds, as they bloom en masse.  They are an omen of good fortune, and of love.

However, as they pass quickly, they also are associated with the impermanence of all things, and sadness at their passing. 

A great  many share in Japan's current sadness and loss.

In 1912, Japan gave 3020 cherry trees to the United States to replace 2000 that had been lost to disease.

I  hope that Americans will find a way now to give back to Japan - to help replace what nature, in turn, has so suddenly taken :

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Pictured below are the famed Japanese cherry blossoms, painted as they appeared in 1898, by Munich painter Carl Wuttke.

CARL WUTTKE

German (Munich) 1849 - 1927

"PARK IN TOKYO DURING THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS"

Oil on canvasboard

Signed l.l. C. Wuttke

Titled l.r. "Tokyo” and dated “26.05.(18)98."

Housed in a 22K giltwood custom reproduction frame, in the Prendergast style

Image Size: 7 5/8" x 10 7/8"

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German architecture and landscape painter

Carl Wutte was known as a German architecture and landscape painter.  He studied from 1871 to 1873 at the

Art Academy in Berlin, 1873 with Angelo Quaglio II (1829-1890) in Munich,  and from 1877 to 1878 with 

Eugen Ducker in Dusseldorf.  In 1874 he traveled to Italy, where he remained until 1876, painting in Italy, Sicily and

Sardinia. He visited Andalusia and Norway in 1880 and 1894, settling in Munich in1885.  Wuttke traveled to some

unusual destinations to paint, including Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan), the Sinai, and in 1893 the United States. 

In 1897-99 he undertook a world tour, during which he visited China and Japan.  Upon returning from 

the Far East, he was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II to paint the Silver Salon of the Berlin Castle.

He also executed commissions for Prince Heinrich of Prussia.

His landscapes are often genre scenes.  In his earlier paintings, he concentrated on painting finely gradated light,

predominant in the pre-impressionistic Romantic style. However, his later works are characterized by much brighter  

colors, and quite spontaneous and energetic brushwork - in the turn-of-the-century Impressionist  manner.

Selected Publications:

Travel Memories of Study Trips Around the Earth.  Munich, 1914

E. Benezit "Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs"

Thieme-Becker, "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler"

F. v. Boetticher, "Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts"

J. Busse, "Internationales Handbuch aller Maler und Bildhauer des 19. Jahrhunderts"

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