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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was a British astronomer and son of the Uranus discoverer Wilhelm Herschel. He is credited with the first double star and nebula catalogues of the southern starry sky, which he observed during a five-year stay near Cape Town.
William Shakespeare was a British poet and playwright and writer.
William's father, John Shakespeare, was a merchant and official in Stratford. There are reports that he was a sailor for a time before joining a theater company in London. Beginning in the 1590s, Shakespeare began writing plays, and in 1593 he published a poem, Venus and Adonis, which became popular. He dedicated it to the Duke of Southampton, who was a philanthropist and patron of talent, and soon his business was booming.
From 1592 to 1600 Shakespeare wrote his dramas and romantic comedies "Richard III", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Romeo and Juliet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Merchant of Venice", as well as the comedies "Much Ado About Nothing", "Twelfth Night" and the tragedy "Julius Caesar". The playwright's business was so successful that he even bought a large house in Stratford. In 1599, Shakespeare became one of the owners, playwright and actor of the new theater "Globe". In 1603 King James took Shakespeare's troupe under his direct patronage. In the mature period, the great playwright turned to tragedies, there were "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and others.
Although in the 19th century researchers had some doubts about the authorship of many of these works, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest English playwright, one of the best playwrights in the world. His plays have been translated into all major languages and to this day form the basis of the world theatrical repertoire, most of them have been screened many times. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shakespeare remains the world's best-selling playwright, and his plays and poems have sold more than 4 billion copies in the nearly 400 years since his death.
Carlo Bugatti was an Italian decorator, designer and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, models of jewelry, and musical instruments.
Bernd Kirschner is acontemporary german artist. He studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. He lives and works in Berlin and Konstanz. Bernd Kirschner deals in his paintings, which play with figurative and abstract elements, with collective memories and experiences, dreams and subjective perception. His imaginative landscapes invite the viewer to immerse himself mentally in order to decode the deeper symbolism behind the motifs. The mystery of water often becomes the theme. The surfaces of his canvases reveal transcendent, merging color transitions. Bernd Kirschner expresses in his paintings the irrepressible power of nature, which can have not only a calming, but also a worrying effect on people. Recent solo exhibitions of the artist include "Oracles" at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna ( 2019 ) and "Morphic Fields" at the Kunsthalle Messmer ( 2017 ) in Riegel.
