09:45: A day for museum visits! Up at 07:15, washed and breakfasted. I’m heading to the Pinakotheken today.
11:16:14: Gerrit Riedveld chair
11:18:48: Jean Heiberg - telephone model 332, 1930
11:27:18: Aero engine
11:31:06: Elliot Noyes - IBM Selectric typewriter, 1961
11:32:27
11:36:32: Marco Zanuso and Richar Sapper - ‘algol’ TV set and wooden mockup, 1964
11:49:01: A short history of the Thonet Brothers furniture factory
11:50:21: A page from the Thonet catalogue
11:51:05: A classic Thonet chair
11:57:44: Olivetti ‘Logos59’ desk calculator, 1973
11:58:11
11:59:26: Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot - radio gramophone, 1956
12:03:34: Thilo Oerke ‘Vision 2000’ cassette radio, 1971
12:13:57: A non-functional robot exploring ways to make robots more appealing
12:15:45
13:29:04: Otto Mueller - self-portrait, 1919
13:38:39: Franz Marc - fighting forms, 1914
13:38:58: Franz Marc - the mandrill, 1913
13:44:37: Max Oppenheimer - portrait of Heinrich Thannhauser, 1911
13:45:09
13:55:08: Otto Dix - Portrait of the photographer Hugo Erfurth, 1925
14:08:44: Xaver Fuhr - Harbour with yellow house, about 1928
15:26: Soaked up stacks of modern art at the Pinakothek der Moderne. I’m not sure if I have the appetite for another two and a half hours at the Alte Pinakothek.
16:00: Sitting outside having a hot chocolate.
17:12: Heading to the Alte Pinakothek for a quick burst of classical art. If it’s closed, then I’ll get dinner.
17:17:09
17:17:55
17:19:23
17:47: At an Indian restaurant Shiva for an early dinner.
17:51: I bailed out. I couldn’t contemplate spending €10 on a dhal makhani, €2.10 on rice and €3.00 on a naan.
18:13: Back at Rosenkreutzplatz, near where the hostel is.
18:24: In the local kebab shop about to have a spinach and egg pide and lentil soup while reading my book. I’ve really had a chance to relax over the last few days.
18:51: Most excellent soup and pide. I think I’ll have some tea and a baklava next.
Shopping list of r tomorrow:
20:53: I’ve retired to my room. I still have it to myself, since yesterday morning.
22:37: I’ve been lying on my bed reading (“A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century”.) I’m going to go to sleep now., Tomorrow will be a hot day.