Introduction
This blog tries to help to solve the mystery “Who was Ric”.
[Update 26. July 2024]: The solution of the mystery didn’t work out , this is the old article
It’s about an unknown artist who signed his works just with the name „Ric“. It tries to collect all findings on the net. There had been a previous attempt to collect information, but it has stalled. The author of this blog was in contact with the one of the predecessor and all hints and informations had been incorporated here.
To make sure this blog won’t add confusion, I decided to reuse the naming already in use, see the list of known works .
The current goal is to extend the list of known works, to investigate some clues a bit further and to rule out some others. Several approaches will be used to gather some more information and to preserve existing:
- Monitor eBay listings
- Investigate hints provided by the readers
- Try to get some clues by visualising the global distribution of Ric’s works
- Save occurrences of works in the Wayback Machine
Each print will be presented in it’s own entry, every time a new copy is found, a new post will be created. Each post will get a tag, these can be searched for on the “Known works” page
Questions?
I’m happy to answer questions using mail . But keep in mind that I’m not an art dealer.
Why Ric?
Some years ago I noticed one of his prints at may parents place, and years later I got it as a Christmas present. I was always fascinated by the geometric style of it, which reminded me of the works of Lyonel Feininger . I tried to find out more, but weren’t really successful.
Some years later I found another print of Ric at a flea market, I didn’t like it as much as the first one, but decided to do some research again an d found the original blog . By that time it was already abandoned, so I decided to pick up the work from there.
More about this blog
Tags
Tags with less then three occurrences aren’t shown.
To-do list
- More on Fritz Neumann
- Add German translation
Acknowledgements
(In chronological order)
- Thanks to Simon for his work on the original blog
- Thanks to Gerbrand Caspers for his support and for encouraging me
- Thanks to Wolfgang Barina for some links he provided
- Thanks to Mark Strong of Meibohm Fine Arts for finding Ric and granting permission to use his text and images.
- Thanks to Torsten Steinberg for the idea with the address books .
- Thanks to Sebastian Schuth, head of the archive of the Spandau City History Museum for finding and providing the newspaper article about Fritz Neumann .
Colophon
This page(s) have been generated with Hugo . The Theme is a customized version of Observer von Zack Sultan for Tumblr. Montserrat and Calluna Regular are used as fonts - if installed on your computer.
The following JavaScript and CSS frameworks are used:
- jQuery
- jQuery lightgallery - for the fullscreen image view.
The Tagcloud and the lightGallery are taken from the provided links.
The logo shows Ric’s signature.
The page is hosted by GitHub .
Contact
“Ric - An unknown artist” is a blog made by Christian Mahnke .
Contact is possible via E-Mail .
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My other blogs
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