Magazine cover (monochrome watercolor on 90 lb. paper and printed as a duotone)

I ate an Apfelkuchen (apple pastry) and had a Kännchen Kaffee (two-cup pot of coffee) almost every Saturday morning for seven years at the Café Sauer in Heidelberg, Germany. EurArmy magazine, for which I was art director, decided to do a story on German cafés, and I painted three illustrations of the café operations and this cover of Mr. Sauer, the pastry chef, who is no longer alive. His wife, the owner, has retired, and now the café is called the Mannheimer Tor ("Mannheim Gate"; Mannheim is a city near Heidelberg).

If you have ever sat in a German café drinking heavenly coffee, knowing that the pastry you have ordered is even then in the oven, almost ready to sit, exuding perfume, in front of you, you will know why I miss them so much.

NEXT

Go to the START of the ART OF HARRY FINLEY

Go to a separate Web site of much more of Harry Finley's art.

First page of the museum Web site | FAQs

© 1998 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org

You're in the Museum of Menstruation, and this is the art of the founder, Harry Finley.