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„Wahre Kunst enthält immer etwas Hexenzauber.“

— Tania Blixen
semi-abstract; mypainting; myart; sine verbis „Wahre Kunst enthält immer etwas Hexenzauber.“ — Tania Blixen
September 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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„Wahre Kunst enthält immer etwas Hexenzauber.“

— Tania Blixen
abstrakt; myart „Wahre Kunst enthält immer etwas Hexenzauber.“ — Tania Blixen
September 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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“La cura para todo es siempre agua salada: el sudor, las lágrimas o el mar.”
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
January 25, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Hey Nixon!…world needs fixin’...ummm you’re a dick, son…uh Karen Blixen
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Goodnight, skyline, as we hover at the solstice.

This is where one waits in silence, holding one’s breath lest the pane should cloud over.

[Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen]
Night sky with the kind of wounds you get when you should not be around someone
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Karen Blixen and her little African owl, Kenya, 1923
April 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Book Cover of the Day:
OUT OF AFRICA KAREN BLIXEN Cream cover, black lettering, highly decorated with intricate landscape and African animals and bird life.
June 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Blixen: has a hot name, does his own thing, concentrates on the work, not on fame.
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Cheers all, near the seaside and thought this was a good quote
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” - Karen Blixen
June 22, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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#dagensrose Karen Blixen.
Kvite, langstilka roser i bed.
September 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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#PortraitChallenge @studioteabreak.bsky.social Karen Blixen
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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“La cura para todo es siempre agua salada: el sudor, las lágrimas o el mar.”
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
September 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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“Ung kikuyu-pige (Portrait of a Young Kikuyu Girl)” by Karen Blixen (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1924 - Karen Blixen Museet (Rungsted, Denmark) #WomenInArt #KarenBlixen #Blixen #KarenBlixenMuseet #Kikuyu #IsakDinesen #WomensArt #DanishArtist #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #WomenPaintingWomen
The Danish title “Ung kikuyu-pige” is often translated as “Portrait of a Young Kikuyu Girl.” Museum notes describes the sitter as renowned for her beauty and she reportedly married with a high bride dowry, but her personal name is not recorded, a reminder of how easily a life can be reduced to type. Blixen painted the work during her Kenya years, later revisited in her 1937 memoir “Den afrikanske farm (Out of Africa).” A young Kikuyu girl is painted from the shoulders up, turned left, her gaze lowered as if listening inward. Her deep brown skin is built with layered strokes of cool charcoal and violet shadows under the jaw and around the eye, warmer sienna and russet highlights along cheekbone and forehead l, so her face is luminous and calm rather than posed. Her eyelids are heavy, lashes darkened, and her mouth rests closed in a neutral, self-possessed expression. A broad headscarf wraps her close-cropped dark hair, banded in muted rose, beige, and smoky gray as a folded tail sits near an ear which has a big looped earlobe. Around her neck, a wide red collar encircles her neck and catches a thin pale glint at its edge. Two bead strands, one red and one blue, drop over her shoulders and cross her chest, adding crisp color against an earth-toned palette. Her bare shoulder is brushed in warm browns, with visible grain and dry-brush. Behind her, an even wash of sandy tan and pale gold is softly scumbled, creating an atmosphere keeping the sitter’s presence at the center. Born Karen Christentze Dinesen, Blixen is also known by pen names including Isak Dinesen, She began as a visual artist and carried that eye into her writing. She trained seriously in drawing in Copenhagen and took classes in Paris before Kenya reshaped her life. In the 1920s, she painted portraits and studies alongside the demanding work of running a coffee farm. After returning to Denmark in 1931, she set painting aside for literature; however, this portrait tells its story even to this day.
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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'Literarischer Handlungsort'
#FotoVorschlag

Kenia, Afrika.

'Out of Africa' by Tania Blixen
Nashorn in der Serengeti. 2001.
January 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
- Karen Blixen

#JuneSea #Blue #scape #seascape
June 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Karen Blixen i 1959 i en pelsfrakke lavet af en leopard, hun selv havde skudt. Det var en anden tid.
October 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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#Painting
🎨 Karen Blixen
April 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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I came to it first via Karen Blixen and her husband
September 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea. –Karen Blixen

#HumansonBlueSky #EastCoastKin #Silhouet #Photography
#Ocean #LandScape
April 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Karen Blixen
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Danish author Karen Blixen (known by several pen names including Isak Dinesen) died #OTD in 1962.

Best known for "Out of Africa," an account of her life while in Kenya, and for one of her stories, "Babette's Feast." Both were adapted as films & each won Academy Awards. #BookSky #LitSky #FilmSky
A black-and-white portrait of Danish author Karen Blixen (1885–1962), celebrated for her memoir Out of Africa, framed with a distinct white Polaroid-style border. Positioned slightly angled in the center, Blixen is shown from the waist up, looking directly forward with a soft, knowing smile and an engaging expression. Her dark hair is pulled back, framing her face, and she holds a pen between her hands as if caught in a moment of reflection. She wears a light-colored turtleneck sweater under a dark knitted cardigan buttoned halfway. The warm, intimate indoor setting includes a subtly patterned wallpaper and a framed picture hanging on the wall behind her. In the top-right corner, an inset color poster of the 1985 film adaptation Out of Africa shows Meryl Streep and Robert Redford sitting in a vast green landscape under a bright sky. The overall composition captures a nostalgic, intellectual mood, celebrating the author's lasting literary and cinematic legacy.
September 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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"Le remède à tout est l'eau salée, la sueur, les larmes, ou la mer."

Karen Blixen
La mer, la plage, l'eau salée, la pleine lune...
March 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Though I won't turn up my nose at this photo of Marilyn, Karen, and Carson.
Marilyn Monroe, Karen Blixen, Carson McCullers.
April 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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“Ho l’abitudine di cogliere le cose già solo con gli occhi”
Karen Blixen
#scorpione
Buongiorno e buon venerdì🎄🦋🫶🏻
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Soy la Baronesa Blixen llorando la muerte de Denys Finch Hatton con el concierto para clarinete de Mozart de fondo.
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Robert Redford
18/08/1936
16/09/2025
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM