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This is the colored version of the Flammarion engraving. Hugo Heikenwaelder created this colored version in the year 1998.

A traveller puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the original black and white (1888) printing of the Flammarion engraving.

The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who is at the edge of the Earth, where it meets the sky. He kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through the star-studded sky, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery bears a strong resemblance to traditional pictorial representations of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" described in the visions of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel. The caption that accompanies the engraving in Flammarion's book reads:

A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch.

Encyclopaedia of Austrian Painters of the Twentieth Century by Dr. Heinrich Fuchs, Vienna, Austria Hugo Heikenwaelder Painter in Vienna. Born on May 27, 1949. He dedicated himself from his youth to music, painting, and literature. His father was a pianist (9 years at the Vienna Conservatory) and illustrator (children’s books). His mother had literary ambitions (poetry and short stories). Hugo Josef Heikenwaelder received his artistic training at the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he dedicated himself to the study of the painting techniques of the old masters. His panel paintings are painted using the finest layered-oil technique on copper or precious metals and distinguish themselves by their warm colour harmonies and...

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