Axel Törneman
Swedish, 1880-1925
"Absinthe", 1902
Oil on canvas 
Törneman was one of Sweden's earliest modernist painters. Born in Persberg, Värmland, he grew to work in several modernist styles, was one of the first Swedish expressionist artists, and became a part of the international avant-garde in art after embracing more abstract art styles in Germany and France that were evolving there during the early 1900s
This depiction of the former sultan of the Ottoman empire as an absinthe enthusiast is particularly interesting if we consider that Abdul Hamid II apparently did not drink alcohol as an adult.
On this, see, for example Abdulhamit Kırmızı's 2022 article "The Drunken Officials of Abdülhamid II: Alcohol Consumption in the Late Ottoman Bureaucracy" (https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/17780)!
Another sketch about Abdul Hamid II by Paul d'Espagnat in "Le Sourire", this time from October 1908 - i.e. just a couple of months after the Young Turk Revolution! Abdul Hamid II states: "Oxygénée Cusenier, dear Sir, a pure marvel! In the three months that I have been taking it, it has had such an effect on me that from an Old Turk, I have become a Young Turk!"
@jbqueru But then I would have to find people who would drink #Absinthe and read #EdgarAllanPoe.
@jbqueru I have thought about getting an #Absinthe #brouilleur or more commonly, an "absinthe fountain." The absinthe fountain is a key component of the traditional absinthe preparation ritual, which involves slowly dripping ice-cold water over a sugar cube placed on a slotted spoon (called an "absinthe spoon") into a glass of absinthe.
@ShatteredPixel 
I really like that tone of green! I call it #Absinthe! 
https://potentpotables.app/drinks/sazerac/
I was given a bottle of #absinthe for Christmas and that stuff is no joke. It's like the description of hard liquor is to a first timer. It burns and it burns and it doesn't stop burning. And it gets me fucked up very quickly.
McGill-Queens University Press is flexing some Canadian certainty with its code: SNOW30. Use to get 30% off all online book orders through December 31. (the sale will end, the snow will continue...)
Delighted to see that includes _The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink_ by @drninastuder. Part of the _Intoxicating Histories_ series, _The Hour of Absinthe_ shows, to quote its tag line: how colonialism, madness, and murder turned the green fairy into the opium of the West.
https://www.mqup.ca/hour-of-absinthe-products-9780228022206.php
Here are a few more depictions of Muslim men drinking alcohol - in the company of European men! - in #ColonialAdverts from the late 19th and early 20th century! These adverts are for "Absinthe Rivoire" (2x), "Byrrh" and "Ricqlès".
Another example: Absinthe was closely connected with life in the colonies in the French consciousness. In this front page of "Le Rire" from 1901 by Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poire) "The Explorers" have glasses of absinthe in front of them!
The connection to the colonies is made clearer by the "humorous" description underneath the image, which says: "If you knew what it's like to live with a camel..."
French military life in Algeria was - according to many observers - defined by absinthe. The caption below this 1882 caricature about Zouaves (i.e. Algerian regiments consisting mostly of Europeans) starts with: "The Zouave: Africa, the sun and... absinthe".
The caption further mentions North African women & green-eyed cats (one of which the zouave on the left is holding by its neck).
A short author Q&A about my new book #TheHourOfAbsinthe with
"Combined Academic Publishers" is now online! https://combinedacademic.co.uk/blog/2024/11/05/nina-s-studer-the-hour-of-absinthe/ #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #HistoryOfAbsinthe #historians #History #alcohol #HistoryOfAlcohol #FrenchHistory #HistoryOfAlcohol #histmed #ColonialMedicine #NewBook #NewRelease
Our postcard from the #Absinthe pilgrimage is mentioned in the last feedback summer edition of Geschichten aus der Geschichte. @GeschichteFM
The episode “GAG298 Die Grüne Fee und der Absinthismus” was helpful and informative for our research.
A first short article on my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe in Le Journal de l'UNIGE in French is now out. "Le mystère de la fée verte", written by Léa Jacquat. I'm very pleased with it, so please, do have a look! https://www.unige.ch/lejournal/recherche/automne-2024/fee-verte #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfAlcohol #Absinthe #HistoryOfAbsinthe #histmed #ColonialMedicine
#introduction
A warm hello to all you epicurians. We just started this account to share with you our adventrues and processes involved in produceing a small batch moonshine #absinthe in #Amsterdam.
If that sounds appealing, please follow us and help us to connect with likeminded people.
Many of the fonts used on our bollets are from @thepytefoundry, the account is run by boheme and writer @dirk and designer @eWalthert
https://potentpotables.app/drinks/doctor-funk/
