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Tag Archives: Germany
Berlin: Museum Goes Mobile
Berlin’s Museum of Now (MON) along with Yes,And…Productions(YAP) have come up with an ingenious way to bring art to city residents during the corona virus lockdown. Loading a projector and speakers onto a truck, they make nightly visits to neighborhoods … Continue reading
Book Face
I never seem to tire of the many iterations of the “bookface” project. You probably have seen versions produced by bored bookshop staff across Europe. Or, perhaps you have stumbles upon #BookfaceFriday, or simply #Bookface, a meme in which you replace … Continue reading
Not Available in Paperback
The Louisiana State University Special Collections Library has recently announced an exciting new acquisition. This is a rare copy of Hartmann Schedel’s The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493 in Germany, in the city that gives the work its name. This incunabula represents one of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Maps, Writing
Tagged Germany, Incunabula, Publishing and Printing
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Sometimes in Winter
Gabriele Münter (Berlin, 1877 – 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Museums
Tagged Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism, Germany, Painting
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No Need To Fly
Europeans seem to be taking the lead in the creation of new travel paradigms. In Germany, DB, the German Railway Operator, has taken advantage of new attitudes towards responsible travel by promoting their discounted train tickets. Still, 72% of Germans … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Aviation, DB, Germany, Train Travel
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Wordless Novel (no fooling)
To follow-up on my recent post about Lynd Ward’s wordless novels, I would like to introduce the German wordless novel, Die Sonne (the Sun), created by Franz Masereel (1889-1972), and published originally in 1919. This copy was re-issued in 1926 by Kurt … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Art Books, Expressionism, Germany, Lynd Ward, woodcuts
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New House for the Bauhaus
This year marks the centennial of the founding of the Bauhaus movement. This world renowned school of art and design has had a dramatic impact on architecture and design around the world. On April 6, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Museums
Tagged Bauhaus, design, Germany, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius
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Go For The Books, Stay For The Beer
Büchermeile Düsseldorf is a mile-long book market of stalls along the banks of the river Rhine in Düsseldorf Altestadt. It happens on three weekends in the summer, the last one of this year will be September 22-23 (weather permitting of course).The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Tourism
Tagged Antiquarian Books, Beer, Dusseldorf, Germany
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It Takes A Train To Cry
Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German rail operator, recently decided to name twenty-five new high-speed trains after historic figures. They crowdsourced suggestions and received more than 19,000 proposals. A jury then selected the final names, including one that has some folks scratching their heads: Anne … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Public Transport
Tagged Anne Frank, Germany, Holocaust, Netherlands
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