Blog: Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

Self-trained German painter Max Raffler (1902-1988), whose cat images--well, image--you've been seeing in the upper left-hand corner of this blog, is described in cyberspace as a "naive" or (what else?)"outsider" artist, which leads me to observe that there's nothing "outsider" about genius. Quite the reverse, actually. Here's a good Raffler bio , and though its German-to-English text is a little quirky, it gets the facts across. Our eternal, sarcastic thanks to Max's sisters. More on Raffler, this time in English: Raffler bio #2 . And images of his painting abound in Google [...]