1898-1998
A
chronicle of the live of my grandparents playing in Georgia,
Russia, Italy, and Germany,
2000
New
edition Illustrated with contemporary photograps, 2011
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Rolf Gross Writings and Travels |
My First and Last Novel
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1898-1998 |
A
chronicle of the live of my grandparents playing in Georgia,
Russia, Italy, and Germany, |
Essays on Favorite Subjects
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Reading Hieronymus Bosch Right to Left 1450 – 1516
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New Approach to Bosch's Paintings 2005 - 2009 |
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The
Frescoes and Painters of 1240 – 1557
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A
Guide to the Frescoes of Tuscany and their Painters |
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900 – 2000
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Russia's
spiritual Soul. One of my most beautitul Webpages.
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History of Romanesque Architecture 300-1300 AD
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A
chronological review of early Christian Architecture |
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History of Gothic Architecture 1100-1600 AD
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The
Gothic illustrated with over 300 annotated pictures |
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History of Indian Architecture 5000 BC to 1900 AD
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An
illustrated account of the architecture of the
Subcontinent
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History of Islamic Architecture 625 - 1857 . |
A
profusely illustrated Essay on the Architecture of Islam, from
Mecca to the Alhambra and the Mosques of India |
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The
Rise of Modern Man
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The
Evolution of Homo Sapiens or Who Created the Paleolithic Cave
Paintings? An adventure story in Paleanthropology. |
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5000 BC – 1400 AD
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By
the end of the Neolithic the men took over from the Matriarchat
and created a patriarchal society headed by a plethora of Gods.
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The
Travels of Ibn Battuta
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Excerpts
from the “Rihla”, Battuta's travelogue illustrated
with many photos from the internet |
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Sven
Hedin's “Through Asia”
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Hedin's
seminal first expedition into the Taklamakan Desert in which he
narrowly escaped death illustrated with his drawings and
photographs. |
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Sir
Aurel Stein's Three Expeditions into Chinese Turkestan
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Marc-Aurel
Stein, a polyglott recluse reaped the archeological fruits of Sven
Hedin's daring. His greatest triumph though was the hidden library
of Dunhuang. He succeeded to acquire hundreds of scrolls from a
Daoist monk at the Buddhist caves. |
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Dale
Chihuly's Glass Creations
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A
cornucopia of the blown-glass pieces by the protean master |
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Frank
Gehry's Architecture |
A
survey of Fank Gehry's Buildings |
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The Paintings of Gerhard Richter 1962 – 2008
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Selections
from Richter's Work with Explanatory Notes, and Videos |
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Contemporary
Chinese Art
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A
Review of 32 Contemporary Chinese Painters, Sculptors,
Photographers, and Installationists with Examples of their Work.
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.Special Exhibitions
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1892 – 1941
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The
life and poems of the Russian poetess in a literal translation
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The Erratic Life of Lafcadio Hearn
1850 -1904
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An illustrated biography of a peripatetic journalist who became one of the saints of modern Japan.
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950–1300 AD
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A collection of exceptional translations of Mozarab poems. |
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The
Historical Photographs of 1846 – 1916
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50 Photographs from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, Georgia |
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The
People of Imperial Russia 1905 – 1916
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The first color photos of Russia from the Collection of the US Library of Congress |
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The Renaissance Fair in Southern California 1973 -1981
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A Mirror of California's Innocent Seventies and Eighties
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....Travelogues
and Travel Guides
......1953
– 2006
.....Novels and Writings in Kindle Format
....Unpublished Writings in PDF Format
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A biographical note to my readers
I
was born Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross - the initials honor my two
grandfathers, one a pastor, the other one a polyglot engineer -
in Silesia, Germany in 1931. I live with my wife Barbara in
California. We have two adult children, Susanne in Denver and
Cornelius in Rome, Italy. All three often appear in my writings,
e.g. Susanne on the author's photo. Already during my years as a physicist I was lucky to be able to travel widely, teaching in the USSR, Georgia, Central Asia, and China. "Konrad and Alexandra" and the "The Return of the Monkey King" are based on these experiences. We fell in love with Greece. "Mount Athos-The Garden of the Virgin" and "Along the Way to Arcadia" are meditations on this country and its past. "The Snow Dancer", a second novel, explores my attraction to Buddhist Dzogchen, to which Cornelius introduced me. Dreams of visiting Tibet finally became reality in 1995. I organized a minor expedition for members of my family to the far West of the country. The diary of this strenuous trip, "Tibet, To the End of the World" will appear as a Kindle edition shortly Fascinated with the paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, I wrote a biography of this enigmatic man, when in 2002 new research permitted dating all his paintings. An alternative is to explore the entries on this website which show annotated photo-essays on my publications and many additonal subjects in large format. I would appreciate to hear your comments and criticism, good or bad, via e-mail (see below). |
....Rolf
W. F. Gross
....Pacific
Palisades, CA, July 2011
....personal
e-mail
