Hello Douglas! (c.c. The Sundial List, The Stained Glass List) What a wonderful and great surprise your mail package was!!!! It's a gold mine of fabulous photos and information about Bernhard Franz and his stained glass sundials. He was a true artist. I hope he's smiling in Heaven for finally getting the recognition he deserves.
I spent all day yesterday with Dave Bell updating the Franz dials in the SGS Image Archive with the new photos and documents you sent me. This was a major find and we thank you very much. I consider these to be very valuable and will return all to you on Monday. I worked very hard on cleaning up the old photographs, removing dust and scratches and cropping the photos to size. Look at the website's Image Archive page (http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials_SGS3.html) and scroll down the Franz Dials. You won't believe they are the same photos. I hope I did them justice. Unfortunately, I don't speak German, so I couldn't read the documents you sent. But I did scan them and make a link to them. I also updated the Information text about his glass dials based on your letter to me. Go see the beautiful new postings. It's all thanks to you. I've credited you too. Thanks so very very much. If you are ever in Tucson, please come visit me and my sundial studio. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas K. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Bernard Franz, Glassonnenuhren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- > Yes! We are VERY interested in receiving the photos, literature and any > more information you have on Bernhard Franz. The photos we currently > have are of poor quality, but better than nothing. We'd love to get > better photos and read those articles you mentioned. I'll return them > of course! (I live in Arizona too (Tucson). Do you live in Tucson > also? If so, I'll pick them up if you'd like, otherwise you can mail > them to me at the address below.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Greetings, John, and on a nice sunny morning, at that. I'll get copies made of the print matter. And then post everything I have concerning Franz to you, at your Tucson address, sometime this coming week (am actually trying to finish an article for CLOCKS at the moment). You'll probably want to forward copies of some of the material to your German members, as they'd find it much easier to check on specifics. And I'd be most surprised if the sundial section (their new email address is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie, of which I'm a member, didn't have someone who knew Franz. Then too, am sure the DGC would be happy to carry a query about him and his work in their newsletter, in any case. I'm in the Phoenix area, but hope I can accompany my brother-in-law, Gary Marklund, to the Center for Creative Photography, at the U of Arizona, sometime in September. Perhaps we might visit then, and when I have specifics, will phone. With best regards, Doug -
