Art
Photochroms Capture Belle Époque Germany in Color
Whether it offers an image of a sun-drenched beach or a pristine ski slope, the picture-postcard has become a photographic genre unto itself, synonymous with escapist fantasy.
Germany
Art
Celestial Art and Science in Albrecht Dürer's 1515 Star Charts
The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe.
Art
Avant-Garde 1920s Costumes Reemerge, Revealing Their Makers’ Tragic Story
In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights.
News
Soviet Symbols Going Up and Coming Down
It’s been nearly a quarter century since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the physical reminders of Central and Eastern Europe’s communist past are still provoking controversy.
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Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin
This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.
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Frei Otto, Master of Tensile Structures, Dies Day Before Winning Pritzker Prize
The influential German architect Frei Otto died Monday, one day before it was announced that he would be receiving the 2015 Pritzker Prize.
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Museum Wants Other Half of Cranach's John the Baptist Painting
It's not quite clear why the art dealer mutilated the painting to begin with.
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Art Collective Sues German Politician for Libel: "It Is About Freedom of Art"
The German art collective known as the Center for Political Beauty (CPB) doesn't mess around.
Art
Repatriating Scalps from a German Museum to American Indian Tribes
Repatriation of scalps from a German museum to tribes in the United States is revealing the rift between the countries in the treatment of human remains as museum artifacts.
Interview
What It's Like in Heaven? Christo's New Ethereal German Installation
Recently installed in the Gasometer in Germany, Christo's "Big Air Package" is an ethereal inflatable sculpture. Longtime collaborate and photographer Wolfgang Volz conveyed the experience of being inside: "It is very difficult to describe. I am not a religious person, but should I ever make it to h
Art
Fritz Winter’s Crystalline Vision
Fritz Winter (1905–1976) is a German artist best known for the abstract paintings he did after World War II. He and Rupprecht Geiger (1908–2009) co-founded the group “Zen 49” in Munich in 1949. Willi Baumeister (1889–1955) was also a member.
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The World's Oldest Wooden Architecture
The starchitecture of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas might rule the day today, but the world's earliest architecture was quite a bit more, shall we say, austere. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known example of wooden architecture, a 7000-year old structure.