Ink on paper. Private collection, China. Photograph: all rights reserved.
Two chicks
Page from an album with sixteen leaves, in places dated 23/24 June 1693.
Ink on paper. Shanghai Museum. Photograph: all rights reserved.
Fish and rocks
Hanging scroll, dated 1696.
Ink on paper, 134.6 x 60.6 cm. Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr, 1988, © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, all rights reserved.
Landscape with hut
Page from an album with twelve leaves, dated 1699.
Ink and light colour on paper, 23.3 x 16.8 cm. Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr, 1988, © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, all rights reserved.
Two spiders
Page from an album with three leaves, dated 1691.
Ink on paper, 34.5 x 27.1 cm. Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai Collection. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Fred Fangyu Wang bequest.
Bird, fish, rock
Hanging scroll, dated 1694.
Ink on paper, 127.5 x 36.5 cm. Charles A. Drenowatz Collection, Museum Rietberg, Zürich. Photograph © Wettstein & Kauf.
Landscape with rider
Page from an album with twelve leaves, dated 21 December 1699.
Ink and light colour on paper, 21.3 x 16.8 cm. Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr, 1988, © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, all rights reserved.
Fish
Page from an album with twenty-two leaves, in places dated 1694 and 1702 (The Anwan Album).
Ink on paper. Sumitomo Collection, Sen-oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto, Japan.
Catfish
Page from an album with nine leaves, dated Spring 1691.
Ink on paper. Private collection, China. Photograph: all rights reserved.
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AUTHOR
Richard Weihe studied drama and philosophy in Zurich and Oxford. His poetic biographies of influential artists have earned him a wide readership. Sea of Ink, published in Switzerland in 2005, won the Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande. In 2010 he published Ocean of Milk based on the life of the Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Sher-Gil.
TRANSLATOR
Jamie Bulloch has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001. His works include books by Paulus Hochgatterer and Alissa Walser. Jamie has translated Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by FC Delius (Title No 3) for Peirene and he is the author of Karl Renner: Austria.
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First published in English in 2012
by Peirene Press, 17 Cheverton Road, London, N19 3BB
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This ebook edition first published in 2012.
First published under the original title MEER DER TUCHE by Nagel and Kimche, 2003
Copyright © Richard Weihem, 2003
This translation © Jamie Bulloch, 2012
This work has been translated with the financial support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
The right of Richard Weihe to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly
ISBN 978–1–9086700–6–9
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Supported by Arts Council England – lottery funded.
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