Franz von Lenbach, German
Why You Should Never Put Your Bowl of Hot Oatmeal on the Chair Your Model’s About To Sit On. Even For “Just a Second.” 1895
Oil on canvas
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/// Note the wide-open gaze on this guy.
His left peeper appears much too high.
Connect pupils— that line
would be on an incline.
His two eyes cannot see eye-to-eye.
/// A world-famous composer, his Dad,
sought a banker’s life for the young lad.
But Johann Strauss the Younger
had a musician’s hunger
and all lovers of waltzes are glad.
/// Operettas and dance music made
Strauss a man whose work everyone played,
and in time his own fame
would eclipse Papa’s name.
To defy Dad he wasn’t afraid.
/// His great-grandfather, (nobody guessed),
had a heritage Nazis surpressed.
Johann’s work, they were sure,
proved his German blood pure,
so they lied— what dictators do best.