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"Self portrait, 1807 Wybrand Hendriks (June 24, 1744, Amsterdam - January 28, 1831, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter, primarily known for his portraits, and the concierge of the Teylers Museum. Biography Famous Oval room in the Teylers Museum painted by Wybrand Hendriks, showing Martin van Marum's electriseermachine, one of 9 works by Hendriks hanging in Teylers First Painting Gallery Wybrand Hendriks was born in a sculptor family, as the son of the sculptor Hendrik Hendriksz (ca. 1704-1782) and his wife Aaltje Claasdr. Both of his brothers, Hendrik jr. and Frans, followed in the footsteps of their father, also becoming sculptors. His only sister, Cornelia, married the sculptor Rijk Rijke. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he learned to paint while working in the decorative wallpaper factory of Johannes Remmers, in Amsterdam.Wybrand Hendriks in the RKD In 1772 he purchased a wallpaper company from Anthony Palthe, son of Gerhard Jan Palthe. In 1775, he married Anthony Palthe's widow, Agatha Ketel, whom he had drawn previously in 1773, wearing mourning clothes.Artikel van het Teylers: "Het portret van Wybrand Hendriks en zijn echtgenote Agatha Ketel" Interior with woman A painting he later made in 1791 of her sitting across from him at a table (probably situated in the fundatiehuis) was purchased for Teylers Museum with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt in 1999.Portrait of the couple on Vereniging Rembrandt Later that year they got married [again?], and made a trip to England and Belgium. In the 1780s he served a five-year term as one of the directors of the Haarlemse Tekenacademie (Haarlem drawing academy). He assumed the position of concierge ("kastelein") of the Teyler's Stichting in Haarlem in 1785, after his predecessor Vincent Jansz van der Vinne had left following a disagreement with Martin van Marum, the head of the fossil and instrument collections.Biographical entry on Wybrand Hendriks on Teylers website Wybrand held this position from 1786 until 1819, and he lived at the "Fundatiehuis" as curator of the art collection. He maintained and restored the pieces in the collection as well. He maintained a studio in the old drawing room of Teyler's drawing academy, which had been moved to the city hall. As curator, he was responsible for expanding the collection of art, and for that he participated in auctions throughout the Netherlands to purchase drawings. In 1790, through Willem Anne Lestevenon, he managed to purchase an important collection of 1,700 Italian drawings from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden (the Odescalchi collection). This collection included works by Michelangelo and Raphael, which are currently amongst the most important and valuable pieces in the Teylers Museum art collection. After his wife Agatha died in 1802, he remarried Geertruid Harmsen in 1806, the widow of J.Radecker, the city organist of Haarlem, though she died shortly afterwards, in 1817. Two years later he moved to a house at the Oude Gracht, where he lived until he died in 1831 at the age of 86. Hendriks was active as regent of the Vrouwe- en Antony Gasthuis hofje, a member of the Haarlem city council, and was a patriotic supporter of the French revolution at the end of the 19th century. Among his registered pupils were Hermanus van Brussel, Warnaar Horstink, Gerrit Johan van Leeuwen, Hendrina Alida Sollewijn, Abraham Vallenduuk, and Jacobus Vrijmoet. Works He is known for portraits, landscapes, and copies after older masters, such as flower still lifes in the manner of Jan van Huysum. Hendriks created several paintings in and around the Teylers Museum, for example of the directors of the Teylers Stichting, the Oval Room and the inner garden of the Foundation House. His paintings of the inner garden of the Foundation House and the Oval Room seem to have been created with the help of convex mirrors and other optical aids because the perspectives are impossible to achieve without this. He created portraits of, amongst others, Jacob van der Vos sr., Christiaan Scholten, Christiaan van Orsoy, Jan Petrus Scholten van Aschat, Frederik Alexander Vernède, Wernerus Köhne, Adriaan van der Willigen and Martinus van Marum. He also made grisailles, like the one presented here. This grisaille now adorns a fireplace in the Frans Hals Museum in one of the regent's rooms of the Oude mannenhuis. The subject is taken from the marble sculpture in the garden of the Fundatiehuis. File:Wybrand Hendriks - Commissarissen der havens te Amsterdam.jpgGroup portrait of the four chief commissioners of the ports, quays and cranes in Amsterdam, sitting around a table File:Een schilder met zijn vrouw Rijksmuseum SK-A-1989.jpegWybrand Hendriks and Agatha Ketel File:Wybrand Hendricks after Pieter Soutman - portrait of Colonel Cornelis Backer.jpgPortrait of Colonel Cornelis Backer after Pieter Claesz Soutman's 1642 schutterstuk. The man resembles Hendriks himself File:HendricksWybrand1.jpgVase of flowers after Jan van Huysum File:Wybrand Hendriks - Gezicht op de Nieuwe Gracht te Haarlem.jpgLandscape File:The Board of Teylers Foundation, 1786..jpgThe Board of Teylers Foundation, 1786. References External links 1744 births 1831 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Artists from Amsterdam 19th-century Dutch painters "
"Saleem Safi (Urdu, ) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist, defence analyst and current affairs TV talk show anchorperson. He was born on 7 March 1968. Career Saleem Safi is considered a specialist in issues concerning Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan's tribal areas.Afghan warlord 'aided Bin Laden' BBC News website, Published 11 January 2007, Retrieved 14 August 2018 Saleem Safi was born in District Mardan of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa(Pakistan). He did his Bachelors from the University of Peshawar. After his studies he started his career as a reporter for NNI(News Network International) in Mardan. Where he rose to the post of Beauru Chief of NNI in the key city of Peshawar. As Beauru Chief he was covering all of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, FATA and Afghanistan. He started writing columns for national newspapers. From 2000 to 2008 Saleem’s columns in Daily Mashriq, Daily Aaj and Daily Pakistan were not only widely read but widely hailed as bringing facts and in depth coverage of an emerging situation in the pre and post 9/11 scenario. Pakistani politics, foreign policy, Afghanistan and socio religious issues have all been discussed by him through his writings in more than one thousand columns. In 2004 Saleem’s first book, Afghanistan: The Role of US, Taliban and Pakistani Religious Parties. He is in the process of writing his second book. Saleem also started in electronic media following the media boom in Pakistan. He hosted his own prime time Pushto talk show, Jirga from PTV Peshawar from 2002 to 2004. Due to popular demand he again started show but on PTV World, “Saleem Safi Kay Saath” in Urdu in 2005 from Islamabad, which he hosted till 2008. From 2007 to 2008 he also hosted a talk show, “Siyasat” on the Pushto language tv channel, Khyber. At the end of 2008, he joined Pakistan’s largest media group Jang and Geo TV as an anchor, columnist and analyst. He is currently hosting a show with the name of Jirga, and writes in the News and Jang with the same name. Saleem’s talk shows and documentaries are widely seen across the country. He has conducted hard hitting interviews of many national and international leaders and stakeholders in the region such as Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Asif Ali Zardari, Hamid Karzai, Fazal-ur- Rehman, Gulbadin Hikmatyar, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Abdullah Abdullah and other political, religious and jihadi leaders. Saleem is working on new initiatives to further his work.e is a pashtoon nationalist and Jamat e Islami supporter. He has hosted various current affairs programmes on TV channels such as PTV News, the Pashto-language AVT Khyber and is currently serving as the host of GEO News TV talk show Jirga.Nothing to be gained from standoff with institutions: Nisar Dawn (newspaper), Published 10 September 2017, Retrieved 14 August 2018Profile of Saleem Safi on PakistanHerald.com website Retrieved 14 August 2018 He has also written columns for the Daily Jang, an Urdu language newspaper. Books Saleem Safi is the author of Afghanistan: US, Taliban, Aur Pakistan Ki Deeni Juma’aton Ka Kirdar ("Afghanistan: The role of US, Taliban and Pakistan's religious parties"), published in 2004. References External links Profile of Saleem Safi *Jang.com.pk columns by Safi *Pakistan Herald articles by Safi Living people Pakistani columnists Pakistani male journalists Pashtun people People from Mardan District Geo News newsreaders and journalists University of Peshawar alumni Defence and security analysts in Pakistan Year of birth missing (living people) "
"Feuersteinklippe The Feuersteinklippe is a rock formation in the Harz National Park in central Germany and the landmark of the nearby village of Schierke. The Feuersteinklippe is a butte made of granite, not flint (Feuerstein = "firestone" or flint) as the name suggests. It shows the spheroidal weathering typical of the Harz region. The striking rock formation is located at a height of 690 metres and is surrounded by woods. It lies to the north of Schierke station. The name Feuersteinklippe is derived from the Schierker Feuersteinwiesen (Schierke Feuerstein meadows) that lie to the southeast, which in turn were named after the cultic fires or signal beacons originally lit at this spot. An information board on the rocks recalls the visit of Goethe and the painter, Georg Melchior Kraus, who spent time here on 4 September 1784 in geological studies. The well-known herbal liqueur, Schierker Feuerstein, which is made in Schierke, is named after the rocks. The label portrays the rock formation. File:Schierke Feuersteinklippe Zugang.jpgForest clearing at the rocks File:Feuersteinklippe.jpgThe rocks in winter See also * Harzklippen Sources *Gorsemann, Sabine and Kaiser, Christian (2010). Harz, DuMont Reiseverlag Ostfildern, , p. 151 Wernigerode Rock formations of Saxony-Anhalt "