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//OOC: And here's my collection about Frederick the Great (and his family). Also: If I'm missing out good books, just let me know.

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Few pages from my 2 month sketchbook in no particular order. Yeah the theme is not very consistent haha

#froths at the mouth #swoons and backflips

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the publisher i work for is publishing a book on german history, the editor knows of my obsession and said the chapter on frederick the great is pretty darn negative and that the author paints a picture of a psychopath. i got curious and read the text and honestly? the author could go a lot harder lmao

#the author is very proud that he read hugo valentin’s 1937 study #personal

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what is it with gay war criminals and being born on january 24th

#frederick the great #hadrian

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Illustraitions by H.J. Ford, from The Book of Princes and Princesses by Leonora Blanche Lang, first published in 1908.

#Frederick the Great #Hans Hermann von Katte

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happy birthday to my dead gay son

#wanted to paint something nicer but i got ko’d with covid :( #so here have a colored sketch

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Franz Jüttner (1915) Magazine cover for Lustige Blätter. Text:

Der Vater des "Militarismus". "Und das sage ich ihm, mein lieber Feldgrauer: lasse er die Engländer nur räsonieren über unser Potsdam, — wenn sie es bloß fürchten!“

#the image description from Mary Evans Picture Library is: #“Friedrich the Great encourages a fine upstanding young soldier of World War One” #anyway someone please feed my man #frederick the great #my quest for rare fritz images continues #ww1 #sanssouci #dogs

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Pardon me I'm just obsessed that the chair Fritz died in has its own article and multiple photos, who is this content for? (me)

Schloss Sanssouci, Arbeits-und Schlafzimmer Friedrichs des Großen mit Sterbesessel. © SPSG / Foto: Leo Seidel

#looks like a nice chair tbh #frederick the great...'s chair #death cw #“Sterbesessel” is such a fun term #the chair of DEATH

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Carl Wilhelm Anton Seiler (1903) Frederick the Great watching the approach of the French troops near Rossbach through a hole in the roof

#frederick the great #carl wilhelm anton seiler

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Members of the von Katte family, 2014, with the executioner's sword used to decapitate Hans Hermann von Katte in November 1730.

The sword hilt has an inscription in German; "Wan ich das Schwert thue aufheben, wünsch ich dem Sünder das Ewige Leben" – "When I lift the sword, I wish the sinner eternal life"

#hans hermann von katte

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Was at a board game festival this weekend and stumbled upon this, I couldn't not buy it

#merchandise #frederick the great #personal

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Are there any books you can recommend about Friedrich? German or English would be nice.

By the way, your art is so damn cute and adorable!! I am always happy to see you on my dashboard, even if you're "just" answering questions as you seem really nice.

hi!! first of all thank you ,,, means a lot to me, i always re-read my answers to make sure i don't sound rude or anything 😭 anxiety girlies where you at

about the books, there are lots!! i recommend you also ask @kattestrophe - she knows more than i do, especially about the german books; i am neither german nor english so some of those i own aren't available in languages other than my own.

the ones from my collection that are available in english/german are:

frederick the great by william f. reddaway - this is a biography, available in english, i haven't read it all because i only needed the crown prince bit, and that one had historical inaccuracies, so be mindful. but it has images!!

king in prussia by rafael sabatini - this is fiction and also available in english! it's a book from 1944 i believe, divided in two parts, specifically before katte's death and after katte's death up until ... i think the end of the seven years war? i don't know, i haven't read it all and i will stop at katte's death. fritz is very gay in this one as far as i've read, but in a queer disney villain way, which can be fun if you decide to ignore the homophobia. also one of the protagonists is katte's entirely fictional jacobite cousin, the most annoying man on earth.

zeithain by michael roes - this also is fiction, and only available in german. i have only read five pages of it (my german is very poor) and it follows katte, not friedrich. katte is also very sad. but as far as i was told, both of them are gay, so there's that. so far hans is like "it's raining and i'm alone and last week i went to a funeral. i have prayed to the god i lost during my childhood", certainly something very different from how he behaves in king in prussia ...

katte: die geschichte einer freundschaft by gertrud von brockdorff - this is also german only, i'm not sure about the actual book being available (i was sent a pdf) although it could be available in germany?? it is pretty old tho (1934) so i wouldn't know much about that. this one is also more about katte and friedrich, again fiction, it's eight chapters, still haven't read it because this bad boy is written in fraktur and i have trouble reading that but i have had conversations about it, and boy is it queer. there is a single chapter in which katte has a small identity crisis and has a romance with wilhelmine, but after that he's back to longing for frédéric and his "wide, bright and impenetrable" eyes that bewitch everyone. fellas is it gay to think your male friend's eyes are what you need a woman to have so you can actually love her?

the sorrows of frederick by romulus linney - available in english, this is a play from 1966, still haven't read it (the package is somewhere in europe right now), i think it follows all of fritz's life? it has fredersdorf, at least. but fredersdorf here knows katte, so eh. some anachronistic thingies here and there, what's new.

der alte fritz in 50 bildern - i can't figure out the name of the authors (damn it, fraktur) but worry not: this only has somewhat cool illustrations about fritz's life and a little bit of german text. at least some of them are. others are peculiar: voltaire is shorter than fritz in these. he wishes. i'm adding a photo though, so you can see!

i also own a pretty interesting book, not about fritz but about the seven years war in general, titled "prussian army soldiers and the seven years' war: the psychology of honour" by katrin and sascha moebius (there is an umlaut on the o there; i'm writing this on my pc and don't know where to find it).

i also have "later selected poems" by sheenagh pugh, which contains "five voices", a cycle of five poems showing five different perspectives on katte, if you're interested in that. there isn't a fritz perspective, though.

he also has a short chapter in "bad gays" by huw lemmey and ben miller, but i found it to be somewhat offensive at some point, although that could be a translation issue: there is a pretty offensive slur and some things i found to be inaccurate. overall i wouldn't buy it. i only bought it because the italian edition has very cool illustrations, at a time where i did not know about this translation thing.

the rest of my books are all available in italian only (or about voltaire).

hope this was helpful!

#books 👀 #reblogging for future lisa

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i usually call him fritz because honestly? it's the best option

frederick - i dislike the english version of the name srry

friedrich - i am 75% sure i'm pronouncing that wrong even after twelve years of german

federic / frédéric - i am 110% sure i can't pronounce it in french

fred - no

To (18th century) Prussian history/Fritz tumblr:

Thoughts on this?

#also fritz is just a cute nickname #silliness #personal

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Bernhard Heisig (1997) Frederick the Great

#my quest for rare fritz images continues #frederick the great #Bernhard Heisig

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i tried working on a panel for my graphic novel just to see how much time it took and yall i'm desperate! good night!!!

#slay me #weeping #frederick the great #hans hermann von katte #gilsart

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Wolfgang Peuker (1992) Friedrich der Große im Brustportrait

#my quest for rare fritz images continues #frederick the great #Wolfgang Peuker

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Felix Ehrlich (unknown year) Portrait of Frederick the Great

#frederick the great #my quest for rare fritz images continues #Felix Ehrlich