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Bulgarian Ballads · 1921

Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Traianov, 1921; illustrator / engraver : Sirak Skitnik | detail from book cover
Bŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. Book front cover | src modernism.scas.bg
Maika by Sirak Skitnik. Third illustration from the cycle Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921
Maika / Mourning mothers. From: Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. | book scan from Alba

If you wish to learn more or read more about Sirak Skitnik and Bulgarian Modernism or Native Art, you may want to dig further here:

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Modernism and the National Idea in Bulgaria @ sledva.nbu.bg (in English)

The whole batch of illustrations from the book are available to be viewed (but in very poor resolution) at the NYPL

Сирак Скитник / Sirak Skitnik ~ Maika / Mourning mothers, 1920-1921
According to Irina Genova, there are three versions of this same composition
Sirak Skitnik ~ (Opustoshenie / Devastation, 1920-1921
From : Bŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator / engraver : Sirak Skitnik
Sirak Skitnik ~ Zaklinania / Incantation, 1920-1921
Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik (Zaklinania / Incantation). Book scan from Alba

The Riesenrad through time

The Riesenrad after the II World War. Prater Park in ruins, Vienna, January 1946 (Photo by AFP) | src getty images
The Riesenrad after the II World War. Prater Park in ruins, Vienna, January 1946 (Photo by AFP) | src getty images
Yoichi Okamoto ~ Das Wiener Riesenrad, Wien, 1945 | Giant ferris wheel, Prater park, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, 1945 | src ÖNB ~ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
The Big Wheel at Prater Funfair, Vienna, July 1967 (Photo © Hulton Archive) | src getty images
The famous Ferris wheel at the Prater, Vienna’s principal public park, circa 1955 | src getty images
The Wiener Riesenrad, Vienna, ca. 1935. The Riesenrad in the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt | src getty images
Wurstelprater amusement park, Vienna, 1920s. Wiener Prater park with ferris wheel | src getty images
Prater park. In the background the Riesenrad. Photography by M. Manenizza, Vienna, ca. 1900 [Auf dem Weg in den Wiener Wurstelprater, im Hintergrund das Riesenrad. Photographie von M. Manenizza; um 1900] | src getty images

Leben im toten Wald, 1945-46

Theo Felten :: Leben im toten Wald (Hürtgenwald*), 1945-46. | Life in the Dead Forest (Hürtgenwald*), 1945-46 | src Lempertz
(*) The battle of the Hürtgenwald involved the greatest losses of World War II. It took place on the Belgian-German border (Düren district) in Germany from 6th October 1944 until 10th February 1945. (quoted from source)