Anna Tijinsky

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6,124 appearances 27 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

Anna Tijinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 27 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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No Such Thing As A Fish · No Such Thing As Trigger's Stradivarius · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

so basically Van Gogh was very popular in the Jewish community in the thirties and forties when he hadn't become really, really popular yet. voice-verified

Uh, 'cause they were a bit less conservative than the non-Jewish collectors, and Van Gogh's were like still they were expensive, but they were still kind of affordable at that stage. voice-verified

And so a lot of the van Goghs were in Jewish collections, and of course the Nazis basically stole. voice-verified

All of those. voice-verified

And by twenty twenty one, I haven't got the current figures, but the Nazi Erie Nazi era provenance internet portal, which goes through all of the paintings and sees if they might have been stolen. voice-verified

Uh they list seventy three van Gosh in American museums they say have questionable provenance. voice-verified

No way. voice-verified

Um so there's quite a lot of them on display which might have been plundered in the war. voice-verified

Yeah, voice-verified

Because they're all just squiggles, aren't they? voice-verified

So isn't it voice-verified

say something about the squiggles. voice-verified

So the squiggles that I was referring to as Starry Night. voice-verified

Oh, yeah. voice-verified

Starry Night, which is the famous one you will have seen parodied everywhere. voice-verified

Um, but scientists have looked at it and found that the squiggles that he put between the stars are an exact model of turbulence. voice-verified

Like let's say you're testing an aeroplane by throwing a chicken into it, you need to see where all the wind's going, and you can see the little eddy. voice-verified

And the little walls that the um that the air makes. voice-verified

And the starry night is almost exactly what scientists would see if they fed that into a computer. voice-verified

But the really interesting thing is he did loads of these similar paintings, but some of them were done in the institution, and some of them were done when he was not having his mental issues. voice-verified

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