tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post80146527493879402..comments2024-03-24T16:37:56.651-07:00Comments on Kurt of Gerolstein: Art and the Bikie BlacksmithGEROLSTEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08446253124724430879noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post-51450779235956348462020-12-04T18:24:33.947-08:002020-12-04T18:24:33.947-08:00Oooh, ouch. Ive never, alas, seen the Matterhorn...Oooh, ouch. Ive never, alas, seen the Matterhorn. Even though my Dad climbed it in the 1930s. Dad was Austrian born, of Hungarian ancestry ... the lovely wee picture, which hangs alongside my bed, came to me from my Austrian grandmother.GEROLSTEINhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08446253124724430879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post-21582326314429370002020-11-25T06:06:06.279-08:002020-11-25T06:06:06.279-08:00I'm enjoying looking through your blog posts, ...I'm enjoying looking through your blog posts, but came across this one where you seemed to attribute the Matterhorn to Austria.<br /><br />However, being half-Swiss, I can let you know that the Matterhorn is on the border of Switzerland and Italy. The view in your painting, with the "bent peak" is as seen from the Swiss village of Zermatt, but if you go over the border into Italy, the mountain is known as Monte Cervino, being near to the Italian village of Cervino, and you can't see the bent peak from that angle! Anglosvizzera58https://www.blogger.com/profile/16651975490705574469noreply@blogger.com