The Lovers’ Chronicle 12 August – livin’ – art by Ernestine von Kirchsberg

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

as with all things new

comes mystery

and eagerness

to see what awaits

do you know

how long it has been

the verse goes on

with tales of intimacy

but they are mostly

imagination

tryin’ to live

through this vision

i believe it is time

to set that life aside

i know,

my true,

i am bound

summertime,

fallin’,

if i cannot get,

will have none at all

wish i had made

every song, i wish

that girl was mine

with apologies
to Mr. Vidal…

intimacy is not my bag
i was debagged
at an early age
so i turned to verse and art,
perfectly acceptable substitutes

macraincomin a helluva thunderstorm
blew through here earlier
high wind, heavy rain, hail
i poured another drink,
and watched
and thought of you

Wish I were still with you
Wish we were still true
Wish I could undo what was done
Wish we were still livin’ in the rose

Today is the birthday of Ernestine von Kirchsberg (12 August 1857, Verona – 8 October 1924, Graz); landscape painter. She began taking art lessons in 1873 at the “Landschaftliche Zeichenakademie” (Landscape Drawing Academy) with Hermann von Königsbrunn (de). After 1881, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels, August Schaeffer and Hugo Darnaut. Her first exhibit followed shortly, at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

It was Darnaut who most influenced her style; an atmospheric school of landscape painting peculiar to Austria, known as “Stimmungsimpressionismus (de)“. While in Vienna, she befriended Marie Egner and Alfred Zoff, who she later followed to Munich. There, she completed her apprenticeship with him and Adalbert Waagen (de), a student of Albert Zimmermann. She also took up watercolors and was initially best known for her work in that genre.

In 1893, she was awarded a prize at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She later exhibited frequently in Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Graz and elsewhere; making numerous painting expeditions to the Adriatic, Styria, Carniola and the South Tyrol.

She died in 1924 and is buried at the St.Leonhard Cemetery (de) in Graz.