No. 43 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer stampsheet" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands)

No. 43 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer stampsheet" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) - now Ruud was creating a kind of new postage stamp by using an old one with an Andreas Hofer portrait on it; it turned into the first official postage stamp from Socks Land. Sent in another colourful painted envelope. Really funny idea. He sent several more to use it for my next outgoing mail art. Thank you very much.

see many of Ruud's pages or blogs:
http://iuoma.blogspot.com

www.iuoma.org

No. 42 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Peter Backes (Germany)

No. 42 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Peter Backes (Germany) - a really nice collaged art-work came today from Peter, it is a sliced Andreas Hofer and the rest of it was collaged backsides, together with an old map of Northern Italy, so that you can still see the typical silhouette of Andreas Hofer; thank you very much.

No. 41 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Fabio Sassi (Italy)

No. 41 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Fabio Sassi (Italy) - Fabio sent this nice stencil drawing - a portrait. backsides with several artistamps. Thank you very much. It was really a pleasure for me getting a mail art from Bologna, the city where I stayed a longer period and have been studying history of art - I love this city. I will try to keep on corresponding.

see his page: http://fabiosassi.blogspot.com/

No. 40 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands)

No. 40 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) - finally the icon arrived as a postcard, the first has come in the size DIN A 4, the second together with a fading out version inside of an envelope and now the real postcard. Thank you - Ruud, if you come along here, maybe you could change the address in your computer? - "Rolsnd Helbritter"

see many blogs of Ruud:

http://iuoma.blogspot.com

more to be found on this page

No. 39 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer & Napoleon" from Denis Charmot (France)

No. 39 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer & Napoleon" from Denis Charmot (France) - Denis sent a digital worked out szenerie: Napoleon on the horse is holding a kind of a crystal ball with an image of Andreas Hofer, saying the words "Il m'énerve mais qu'est ce qu'il m'énerve ce Andreas Hofer !". Thank you very much.

see his page: http://denis.charmot.free.fr

No. 38 - arriving mail art " Schnittmuster für Andreas Hofer Schürze" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 38 - arriving mail art "Schnittmuster für Andreas Hofer Schürze" from Angela Behrendt(Germany) - Angela sent a sewing pattern for a pinafore, a typical piece of clothing in South Tyrol. Thank you very much.

No. 37 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer zum Gedenken - Freiheit für Alle!" from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg)

No. 37 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer zum Gedenken - Freiheit für Alle!" from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg) - a nice drawing from Fraenz, and one of his Art Stamp; thank you very much.

see his age: http://www.mailart.lu/

No. 36 - arriving mail art (fading out) "Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands)

No. 36 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) - it is a variation of his first participation, here a small size computer printout, one of it is fading out. Thank you very much.

see his pages: http://iuoma.blogspot.com/ and there you can find several more of his pages

No. 35 - arriving mail art (Andreas Hofer's autumn) from Sylvie Gallet (France)

No. 35 - arriving mail art (Andreas Hofer's autumn) from Sylvie Gallet (France) - it is a digtial variation of a nice autumn photo together with Andreas Hofer. well not a postcard, but nevertheless thanks for it.

No. 34 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer stamps" from Johanna Goisser (Germany)

No. 34 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer stamps" from Johanna Goisser (Germany) - a sheet of real stamps with variations of potraits of Andreas Hofer. Thank you very much for this nice sheet.

see her blog: http://fluxoid.blogspot.com

No. 33 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer wurde nicht erschossen..." from Siggi Liersch (Germany)

No. 33 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer wurde nicht erschossen..." from Siggi Liersch (Germany) - a new legend about the Hero was told: "Andreas Hofer wurde nicht erschossen. Nach den Befreiungskriegen nannte er sich Köttelbug und wurde der Star vieler Kurzprosastücke, die sein Angestellter Siggi Liersch niederschrieb". (Andreas Hofer wasn't shot. After the Napoleonic War of Liberation he called himself Köttelbug and became a star in little prosa poems. His secretary Siggi Liersch wrote them down) Thank you so much, but now I want to read these little prosa about Andreas Hofer-Köttelbug.

No. 31 & 32 - arriving mail art "Holareduliö !" from Erich Sündermann (Austria)

No. 31 & 33 - arriving mail art "Holareduliö !" from Erich Sündermann (Austria) - Erich sent these two postcards with funny illustrations about Andreas Hofer's life; thank you very much.

No. 30 - arriving mail art "combat - resistance - rebellion" from Isabelle Vannobel (France)

No. 30 - arriving mail art "combat - resistance - rebellion" from Isabelle Vannobel (France) - collaged postcard with different artistamps on it. Thank you very much: Isabelle has a mail art call about sheep

see her blog: http://artmoutonneux.over-blog.org/

... Litsa Spathi's drawing as a postcard edition ...

... the lovely drawing "Fluxus Andreas Hofer" from Litsa Spathi (pseudonym=Nobody) has turned now into a postcard edition and will conquer the world - I already sent out a part of the edition to Litsa and to several mail artists .... if you like to have one of the postcards, let me know and send me a mail art to my call -

ONLY POSTCARDS PLEASE !!!

more details on: http://andreas-hofer.blogspot.com ...
... maybe the next postcard edition is made out of your mail art? ...

No. 29 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Guido Utermark (Netherlands)

No. 29 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Guido Utermark (Netherlands) - a digital variation of a Andreas Hofer portrait (unfortunately sent in an envelope) - maybe I have to underline once again, the project is about postcards, I can't show too much other works, so if you like to sent me a mail art, please as postcards only, because in the planed exhibition it will be shown in comparison with historical postcards showing this Hero.

Guido likes to get neuro-er-ex-otic mail art.

No. 28 - arriving mail art "Hero Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands)

No. 28 - arriving mail art "Hero Andreas Hofer" from Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) - a digital variation of an Andreas Hofer Picture; the letter in which it was sent out you can see here on my other blog http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com/ ; thank you very much.
see some of his pages or blogs:
http://www.iuoma.org/ / http://iuoma.blogspot.com/ / and several more to find there.

No. 27 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Test Tower (USA)

No. 27 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer" from Test Tower (USA) - a digital arrangement with some pictures of Andreas Hofer, backsides with several collages - thank you very much, if you have any mail art call or interest please let me know in a comment.

No. 26 - arriving mail art (Andreas Hofer Portrait) from Servane Morel (Belgium)

No. 26 - arriving mail art (Andreas Hofer Portrait) from Servane Morel (Belgium) - a wonderful painted portrait of Andreas Hofer, thank you very much for this lovely artwork.

see her blog: http://mailartpostal.canalblog.com/

No. 25 - arriving mail art "Hero" from Christine Dorothea Maris (USA)

No. 25 - arriving mail art "Hero" from Christine Dorothea Maris (USA) - the in- and outside of the envelope over an over decorated with icons, a kind of an Hero Altar. Unfortunately the letter was already opened, I hope nothing is missing? Christine, if you have a mail art call or / and a blog please let me know, I will send you something back. Thank you very much.

No. 24 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer with Sox" from Litsa Spathi (Netherlands)

No. 24 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer with sox" from Litsa Spathi (Netherlands) - a surprising letter with two artworks to my both mail art calls. Here this sheet is fitting to both mail art calls because Andreas Hofer is wearing a sock; I sent her a scrap from Andreas Hofer and she made this fuxus like picture including parts of the scrap I sent her. (A great fluxus artwork !) the other artwork you can see on my other blog: http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com/

Thank you very much.
see her blogs: http://fluxlisteurope.blogspot.com/

http://nobodypress.blogspot.com/

http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=27771

info about the artist: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litsa_Spathi

english version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litsa_Spathi

and others more

No. 23 - arriving mail art "Hofer Hofer Hofer Hofer" from Josh Ronsen (USA)

No. 23 - arriving mail art "Hofer Hofer Hofer Hofer" from Josh Ronsen (USA) - Josh has used the typical Hofer picture stamps and made a digital variation of it together with Napoleon postage stamps from Rep. de Guinea Ecuatorial. He set a comment inside: "I would rather had lived under Napoleon than any of the much greater assholes who ruled Europe at that time". Thank you very much. Do you have a blog, any mail art call or interst to send you a reply?

No. 22 - arriving mail art "wer da?" from Erich Sündermann (Austria)

No. 22 - arriving mail art "Wer da?" from Erich Sündermann (Austria) - another drawing from Erich: Andreas seems to shoot a bunny - unfortunateley no postcard.

No. 21 - arriving mail art "Quieres verme en acciòn?" from Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenon (Spain)

No. 21 - arriving mail art "Quieres verme en acciòn?" (do you want to see me in action?) from Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenon (Spain) - collage and painting; of course I would like to see Andreas Hofer with this body in action - go on. Thank you very much.

see his page: www.eltallerdezenon.com

No. 20 - arriving mail art "A. Hofer" from Reiner Langer (Germany)

No. 20 - arriving mail art "A. Hofer" from Reiner Langer (Germany) - collage and drawing of a definitely dead Hero; thank you very much.

No. 19 - arriving mail art "Heldentaschentuch A H" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 19 - arriving mail art "Heldentaschentuch A H" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - a stitched handkerchief from the "hero" with his Initials. Well it is not a postcard, but a really nice idea. For my planed exhibition I can only use real postage stamped items (maybe I will bring the hanky to the postoffice to get one?); nevertheless thank you - our mailarts were crossing each other, but the jesus fluxus booklet, she wants to have, is already in progress.

No. 18 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - gebeizt" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 18 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - gebeizt" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - hundreds of little circles around Andreas Hofer. Thank you very much.

No. 17 - arriving mail art "Andreas - oben am jungen Rhein..." from Kat van Trollebol (Netherlands)

No. 17 - arriving mail art "Andreas - oben am jungen Rhein..." from Kat van Trollebol (Netherlands) - even if Kat says she has not a single idea or the smallest spark of inspiration concerning the matter Andreas Hofer, I like this work very much - the castle on this Picture looks similar to Castle Tyrol, the symbol of the whole land of the Andreas Hofer; so I put this envelope of course here in this blog. thank you very much

Kat has a mail art call about the matter "burlesque"

see her website: http://www.goddelijkegladiolen.com/

No. 16 - arriving mail art "Holy Hofer" from Marco Ambrosi (Italy)

No. 16 - arriving mail art "Holy Hofer" from Marco Ambrosi (Italy) - a funny transformation of a Pietà into a Holy Hofer with his eagle - here on a T-shirt - even on the backside the little icon (I would say it is worth of a postcard edition - sure you will sell these postcards in 2009 very well) - thank you very much

see the graphic artists's homepage: www.ambrosigraphics.com

No. 15 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - who" from Ruth Davis (USA)

No. 15 - arriving mail art "Andreas Hofer - who" from Ruth Davis (USA) - Ruth curates a mail art call from Gallery 11 x 14 - see the page: http://www.manymanos.com/

No. 14 - arriving mail art "Last Letter Home" from Lavona Sherarts (USA)

No. 14 - arriving mail art "Last Letter Home" from Lavona Sherarts (USA) - Lavona has sent a photo, and a bookmark with the picture of Andreas Hofers last letter to his beloved brother and a sticker statement "In mailart there is no judge-no jury Lavona"; thank you for your submission.