Originally published on 22/4/2012. In October 2024 Staatsoper Stuttgart staged “Sancta”, an Opera performance by Florentina Holzinger with Paul Hindemith’s
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Robert Walser, German – Swiss Writer
Originally published on the 12th December 2012. After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years
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Thomas Schütte’s “Großer Geist Nr. 13”
Geist can mean zeitgeist, the Holy Spirit, a powerful mind, clergyman or ghost, and is used to describe the science
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Thomas Schutte’s “United Enemies”
Thomas Schutte is one of my favourite modern sculptors. Back in 2012 I visited his exhibition “Faces and Figures” in
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Fragments of Hoelderlin’s “In lieblicher Blaue – In lovely blueness”
“In lieblicher Blaue” is one of Hoelderlin’s last poems. I have selected fragments of the poem and present them with
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Madonna and Child paintings by Botticelli and Raphael in Berlin
This post is about Madonna and Child paintings by Raphael and Botticelli in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. Raphael, Madonna with Child, St.
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Ancient Greek Art in Berlin’s “Altes Museum”
I took these photographs when I visited the “Altes Museum” in Berlin in 2002. I checked recently the online collection
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Berlin 2002
Some of the photos I took when I visited Berlin in 2002.
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Emil Nolde Graphik – 12 Kunstkarten – 12 Etchings on cards
Emil Nolde is one of my favourite German artists. Today I present 12 of his etchings printed on post cards.
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Caspar David Friedrich: “the most solitary of the solitary”
First time I saw “The Wanderer”, CD Friedrich’s masterpiece, it was on the front cover of Nietzsche’s book “Thus spoke
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