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Ore Mountain folk art (German: Erzgebirgische Volkskunst) is a well-known form of highly artistic wood carving from East Germany. It encompasses the diverse forms of expression of the creative work beyond the classical or the modern arts, and in particular the production of figures, sculptures and paintings.
The New Objectivity, or Neue Sachlichkeit (new matter-of-factness), was an art movement which arose in Germany during the 1920s as an outgrowth of, and in opposition to, expressionism. It is thus post-expressionist and applied to works of visual art as well as literature, music, and architecture.
Pets grow up so fast, but Mandy Helwege has found a way to keep their journey with us alive. Through her "Seeing Double Edits," she combines baby and adult photos of pets into one amazing image ...
Bronze casting commemorating Chicago's 1999 exhibition. CowParade is an international public art exhibit that has featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over the city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks.
The Wallenstein Festival, with around 4,500 participants and an estimated 150,000 visitors in 2016, is the largest historical festival in Europe. [3] The next largest historical festival in Germany is the Landshut Wedding with about 2,000 participants. Due to their high attention to detail, both are among the most notable historical festivals ...
The children often had to work more than 12 hours a day. Families developed a high degree of specialisation. For example, an experienced turner would be working on turning animal shapes (Reifendrehen), another man carved the animal figures out of it and another family took over the painting and the manufacture of small boxes. Earnings from the ...
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In the early hours of 1 January 2020, more than 30 animals, primarily apes and monkeys, were killed at Krefeld Zoo in Germany in a fire believed to have been caused by sky lanterns used in New Year's celebrations. [2] [28] Many of the species involved are endangered in the wild.