Leopold Kupelwieser, Austrian
Umberto, Crown Prince of Baldgaria, 1840
Oil on canvas
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Leopold Kupelwieser, Austrian
Umberto, Crown Prince of Baldgaria, 1840
Oil on canvas
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here (Google translated), and here (Google translated), perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page has more).
/// Johann sported an oversized cranium.
He would say that it proved he was brainy. Hmmm…
But he never disclosed
that he’d oft been exposed
as a fetus to high-grade uranium.
/// Mockers stared at his bald head and laughed,
jeering, “Better stay out of a draft!”
“Can’t tell where forehead ends,
for it seamlessly blends
with atop-head and head which is aft.”
/// They had called him an “egg-head” at school,
(though he hadn’t worked hard, as a rule).
Head once crowned with a thatch
now looked ready to hatch.
He embraced it; now baldness is “cool.”
/// But he’s irked by the Countess he’d wed,
who was distant and cold (and inbred).
She spent hours on the care,
cut, and style of her hair.
He was done after buffing his head.