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“When the Prince of Hanover originally sold the mansion to the Lower Saxony state government for one euro, the original transaction contract stipulated that Germany would invest No less than 37.5 million euros will be spent on the overall renovation of 135 rooms in the Marin Castle.”
Elliot inspected the photocopied document at hand.
“Due to financial problems and the reduction of tourists due to the epidemic in the past two years, the state government seems to be unable to afford such a large expenditure. After adding in the current investment allocation of 30 million yuan, it has suspended the construction of the third It took four years to renovate only half of it, and the budget keeps rising, so I just want to leave this trouble to us."
The secretary pursed her lips and complained very venomously.
“Humph, this is not a well-intentioned olive branch. This is asking us to wipe the butt of the state government.”
“This kind of 19th-century castle wants to be renovated into a large modern museum. The level of infrastructure, running water, electricity, and visitor center must also be ensured that the overall style of the building is not affected. The minimum additional investment will be more than 70 million euros. If it is to be completed within one year, an additional 20 million may be required. "It's safe."
"Miss, you think it's not worthwhile and you want me to reject it?"
"Actually"
Elliot said sarcastically. Sarcastic.
She still felt in her heart that this deal was actually a good deal.
Anyway.
This was also the former palace of the Prince of Hanover.
This generation of Prince of Hanover is the head of the Welf royal family and the great-grandson of William II.
If you go around the seventh aunt and the eighth aunt, you can still have some cousins with Ole.
He also has some distant relatives from the former Habsburg family.
But it was also an empire that collapsed in World War I.
Since Weimar, Germany has been far more tolerant and tolerant of aristocratic groups than Austria.
Although the local government does not recognize it.
But the Hanover family can still be called princes in the media.
Unlike Anna, who is strictly required by law, even her middle name, Feng, is banned.
But on the other hand, in terms of wealth inheritance, the Elena family is much richer than the Prince of Hanover.
Oler said that his cousin was an Austrian landowner, and it was not groundless.
But there is one thing.
Although Anna does not lack land, she even does not lack castles.
But unless the manor where she lives is used to open a family art museum.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to find another historical building as luxurious, exquisite, and large enough as Marienburg.
Unless the meaning is very important or very beautiful.
Otherwise.
The pink castles imagined by girls in most fairy tales.
In fact, they are all very cumbersome industries.
There is no water, no electricity, spider webs are everywhere, dirt is falling from the walls, and the use value is very low.
There is no shortage of destitute Counts in Europe who live in a castle in the countryside of Bavaria and rent a small apartment in Berlin every day to deliver pizzas on a bicycle.
Even the country castle properties owned by the Elena family.
Most of them can be rented.
No one wants to turn it into an Airbnb B&B to allow international tourists to try something new.
She and Mr. Hyperion first met because the big internet celebrity rented a dusty, gothic castle owned by her to shoot adventure videos.
Marin Castle is a very significant and gorgeous Romanesque palace.
Although its renovation cost is very expensive.
However, budget-conscious government departments have spent tens of millions of euros on renovations.
The state government is almost unable to afford the repairs.
Compared with those medieval knights’ castles in the countryside that no one spends 100,000 or 200,000 euros on, is it not a manifestation of high cultural value?
In the field of art galleries and museums.
Excellent buildings and excellent collections can produce an effect of 11 greater than 2.
Just like when people think of the Louvre, in addition to thinking of the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo, they can also immediately think of the magnificent Renaissance-style palace and the famous painting by I.M. Pei in front of the palace. The crystal pyramid designed by Mr.
They have become symbols of Western art as a whole.
The palace is the pedigree certificate of a high-profile museum.
A museum that can be built on a culturally protected building is like a racehorse with a thoroughbred pedigree certificate.
Its influence is destined to be high.
Many of the most impressive museums in the world are built on palaces from the old days.
For example, the Vatican Museum is the papal palace, the Louvre is the palace of the King of France, the Russian Hermitage Museum is the palace of Emperor Ye, and the original site of the Picasso Museum is a medieval palace in Ribera. palace.
Don’t forget the world-famous Palace Museum in Eastern Xia.
The British Museum has been laughed at by the French for many years just because its headquarters is newly built.
Of course.
Except the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
It’s just a North American old hat thing.
No one will mock.
The European cousins only showed mercy to these uneducated cowboys very generously.
"We may not spend a lot of money. Counting the donations we have received from galleries and oil paintings these days, with our current cash reserves, we should be able to cover the renovation costs."
p>Elliot was worried that he had used too much force and made the lady change her mind.
“I raised these questions because I just felt that since Marienburg was against Xia SaAs far as the Kerson State Government is concerned, it cannot afford to repair or sell this historical building. It is impossible to sell this kind of historical building to any commercial company. It is a complete hot potato. We will definitely eat them. ”
“You can at least ask the other party for a low-interest loan, and then ask the other party to rebuild a rural connecting road of about 5 kilometers between the Marin Castle and the A2 highway. At least it should be expanded to four lanes. "
"We will talk about these things later. That's not what I'm talking about. ”
Miss Elena shook her head, “I’m referring to the Schostic Group’s awards. Please push it for me.” ”
She turned around while pushing the wheelchair, put the phone aside, and looked out the window.
Suddenly.
Anna was right about tens of millions. The euro-cost renovation plan seemed to have lost interest for the time being.
The girl silently stared at the flower garden outside the window of the manor.
“Oh, oh, okay. ”
Elliot thought hard for three seconds.
Only in the nooks and crannies of his mind did he dig out what the lady said.
American publishing groups love to gain popularity.
They value public opinion and the business credo of quick response.
Not only did the head of the Schostic Group almost give up during Sir Brown’s speech. Detective Cat.
This was also reflected in the overwhelming applause after Anna finished her speech.
The boss immediately finalized the candidates for the award, and he was very flexible.
Elliot had almost forgotten about this incident.
She had not paid attention to the group. announcement, I didn’t know that Detective Cat was nominated.
Whether it is Anna’s popularity in the public opinion field or her return to the oil painting magazine, taking on the important position of visual art column manager.
Similar events such as attending art festivals and biennales and serving as guests
In the past few days, there have been not ten cases, but eight cases.
Even the Venice Biennale. The organizing committee of the annual exhibition sent invitations.
It was just Anna who refused because the editor of oil paintings was not suitable to serve as a judge for art exhibitions.
American awards are in Europe. The level of attention was correspondingly lower.
Strange
Miss Anna seemed to be acting a little abnormally.
Even after seeing the announcement, Elliot was like this. People around him will also feel that the other person seems to pay too much attention to Detective Cat himself.
It is more than just an admiring painter, or a tool used to slap Sir Brown in the face.
Gu Weijing took out a metal key from his pocket.
Twist the door lock and open the door.
The sketching teacher Vatel has an advanced class this afternoon. There was no one in the office to teach.
Gu Weijing walked straight into the suite in the back room..
The golden sunlight passed through the window and fell on the workbench. There were various pigments floating in the air, the smell of dried pine wood and glycerin mixed with the golden sunlight.
Slightly bitter.
It doesn’t smell good or bad, if you ask art students what it feels like to “create art”.
This is probably the smell that lingers on the tip of the nose.
Professor Wattel gave Gu Weijing a spare key to the office door.
He is welcome to come over and practice on his own in the afternoon when he is free, or when his classmates are in advanced classes.
This week.
Gu Weijing would come here almost every day and spend two or three hours completing the practice of a watercolor painting.
From repeated flat painting to some simple landscapes that exercise color matching.
Leave the painting here when you are done.
Mr. Wattle would take the drawing away, leave a note, and then point out the shortcomings in the exercise as if correcting homework.
This is the cycle.
Gu Weijing yesterday tried to use low-saturation gray mixed with red, yellow and blue colors, combined with white space liquid, to try to draw a scene of the sparkling Spree River under the Museum Island Covered Bridge. scene.
It expresses water waves, mirrors and sunlight.
Whether it is in oil painting, Chinese painting, or watercolor, this is already a relatively complex combination painting method.
Gu Weijing found the note left by Watter on the workbench.
There is only a simple "good" evaluation above.
Master leads me in. Cultivation is personal.
The German teacher’s watercolor level is still slightly ahead of Gu Weijing’s in terms of total experience.
I probably taught Gu Weijing the theory of watercolor painting, from flat painting to gradient blending, and I had given him a small lesson in the evening a few days ago.
Once Gu Weijing started to get started, there were not many suggestions that could be given to him during practice.
The comments on the notes left for Gu Weijing each time were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The very first day.
Several notes were filled with instructions on how to control the saturation of paint, reminding him how to press the edges of colors with watercolor brushes and drag them repeatedly to soften the edges.
The next day.
I can only suggest that when expressing a dense foggy atmosphere, the dosage of cobalt blue and raw ocher can be increased by one point, while the dosage of permanent rose red can be reduced by one point.
The third day is more streamlined and general.
Water was secretly shocked by Gu Weijing's improvement in watercolor skills and his profound art foundation in the three major categories of color, line, and structure.
He also found helplessly that besides carefully putting away all these watercolor practice paintings.
It has become difficult for Wattel to make very constructive comments.
Of course Gu Weijing’s works are far from perfect to the audience. Germans can see some imperfections and disharmony.
But if he can clearly point out where the problem lies and make appropriate suggestions for modifications.
Sorry.
Vettel knows that this is too high of his own level.
He is not Cao Xuan, Lin Tao or Sakai Kazunari.
Students approaching Level 4 vocational level are no longer within the scope of daily instruction provided by teachers employed by Dulwich College.
So here we are today.
On this afternoon when the weekend was approaching again, Gu Weijing found that the note left for him on the workbench contained only a simple "good" comment.
In fact, whether Gu Weijing still goes to Wattel's office to paint is no longer meaningful in terms of improving his skills.
However, the work table here at Vattel that can be tilted at a standard 15-degree angle is specially made.
This stuff is not available everywhere.
Gu Weijing has already ordered an easel with manually adjustable angles online. Before the easel arrives, in order not to delay the progress of his practice.
He is still used to skipping class and taking time to come to the other party's office to polish his watercolor skills.
This is also Gu Weijing’s most important task every day at school.
He put his schoolbag on the floor in a corner, took out a piece of hot-pressed fine-grained watercolor paper from the cabinet, and fixed it on the workbench with construction paper tape.
I glanced at the photo of Museum Island that was usually placed on the table.
Then he opened the system experience value panel and took a look at Watercolor Techniques v3 Semi-Professional 9511000
Then he lowered his head and started drafting.
Gu Weijing’s typewriting today is different from the line drafts he typed during previous exercises.
He did not write about the covered bridge, nor did he write about the water surface.
Gu Weijing practiced the flat painting practice of the covered bridge twice before he became familiar with it. It was already difficult to gain a large sum of experience points quickly.
The reason why he doesn’t paint water is because it won’t help him overcome the bottleneck of watercolor techniques.
The reason is exactly the opposite of the covered bridge.
It is really difficult to express the luster of the water surface, the flat lake and the rapid flow, and the various mists vividly.
Gu Weijing’s control was not very good.
Even though Teacher Wattel gave him a positive comment of "aboveexected" on the note.
But you know your own level best.
Whether it’s the laborious feeling when drawing, or the few hours of practice on the system panel, a total of very little experience points have been gained.
It’s all explained.
Gu Weijing uses the technique of sfumato and gradient to paint the water surface. It is simply that he can paint and possess the knowledge and theory to use this technique.
There is still a long way to go before you can draw a masterpiece.Quite a long distance to walk.
The changes in light and shadow are more complex and subtle than the smooth covered bridge, and the sky is simpler than the ripples on the water.
It happens to be a subject that can bring enough challenges to you without being too strenuous.
There are two main types of clouds in watercolor.
One is bright clouds on a dark background. The key point is to control the soft edge of the pen. The difficulty is to make the clouds look like a ball of fluffy cotton without any obvious pen marks.
The other way around.
Dark clouds on a bright background. The key point is to adjust the color, making the clouds look like a hazy mist under the sunlight.
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