Aaaand, there goes another 30 minutes I could have spent generating Lehndorff commentary for you. :P
Fritz's face, omg, this is possibly the... first picture I have EVER seen of him smiling and happy?!
It definitely felt weird (in a good way) to me too! I keep staring at it in disbelief. Granted, portraiture conventions of the time had people looking serious, but...Fredersdorf and Lehndorff both look happier than Fritz in most of his pictures!
As for fanart, gosh. This is definitely the only one in color and the only one detailed enough to look anything like him, which is why it's so striking. It's certainly my favorite happy Fritz!
So there's this one, which is obviously continuing with the theme of the ONLY THING that makes Fritz happy, and is honestly what inspired my commission. (This one is my favorite, though; not only more detail, but pushes all my buttons, illustrates an episode that I wrote a fic about, and also, I'VE BEEN THERE! \o/)
Aand, going through my bookmarks led me to this, which I thought you might enjoy, cahn. :D He's about to be smiling at the end!
But yeah, not much. People tend to gravitate toward the tragedy.
(Gotta say I love the grumpy look in this one, though.)
Okay, fine, I'm not a dog person so I guess I wouldn't be the person to ask, but they do not look like giraffes at all :P
As the (only?) resident dog person here, I concur that they don't look like giraffes! I was actually looking at them with that in mind, lol, and thinking, "Nope, no giraffes in this picture."
The white one in front I was actually admiring for the distinctive body shape of the Italian Greyhound (at least the modern breed).
Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned
ROFL!
Aaaand, there goes another 30 minutes I could have spent generating Lehndorff commentary for you. :P
Fritz's face, omg, this is possibly the... first picture I have EVER seen of him smiling and happy?!
It definitely felt weird (in a good way) to me too! I keep staring at it in disbelief. Granted, portraiture conventions of the time had people looking serious, but...Fredersdorf and Lehndorff both look happier than Fritz in most of his pictures!
As for fanart, gosh. This is definitely the only one in color and the only one detailed enough to look anything like him, which is why it's so striking. It's certainly my favorite happy Fritz!
So there's this one, which is obviously continuing with the theme of the ONLY THING that makes Fritz happy, and is honestly what inspired my commission. (This one is my favorite, though; not only more detail, but pushes all my buttons, illustrates an episode that I wrote a fic about, and also, I'VE BEEN THERE! \o/)
Doesn't look like him.
Ditto.
Aand, going through my bookmarks led me to this, which I thought you might enjoy,
But yeah, not much. People tend to gravitate toward the tragedy.
(Gotta say I love the grumpy look in this one, though.)
Okay, fine, I'm not a dog person so I guess I wouldn't be the person to ask, but they do not look like giraffes at all :P
As the (only?) resident dog person here, I concur that they don't look like giraffes! I was actually looking at them with that in mind, lol, and thinking, "Nope, no giraffes in this picture."
The white one in front I was actually admiring for the distinctive body shape of the Italian Greyhound (at least the modern breed).