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Karl George Matzek ( 6 July 1895 – 16 April 1983) was an Austrian artist of Czech descent who is best noted for his panoramas of historic battles [1] and murals of Biblical scenes in churches. Matzek was a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Art. His artwork was shown in museums and at major galleries of Europe at his artistic height (in the ...
[2] [3] [4] Karl Thopia, the Prince of Albania, died in 1388 and was buried in Saint John Vladimir's Church. [5] [6] During the 18th century Kostandin Shpataraku painted the walls of the church. [7] An Orthodox monastery grew around the church, and became the seat of the newly founded Archdiocese of Dyrrhachium in the 18th century.
The motif seems to have came from the "melancholy" felt over the death of a young girl who was revered in the Düsseldorf artistic circles. [2] The theme of death had already preoccupied Lessing in his paintings Churchyard with Gravestones and Ruins in the Snow (1826) and Monastery Courtyard in the Snow (1828-1830).
Hanf was the fifth child of the pharmacist Karl (d. 1817) in the monastery of St Lambrecht in Upper Styria. He was born Karl Ignaz Hanf. While just nine, his father and at the age of eleven he went to school to Admont Abbey where his mother Elizabeth Zach (d. 1824) took him on a two-day journey by foot. He studied briefly at Judenberg the next ...
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
They were held for two months, and found dead in late May 1996. The circumstances of their kidnapping and death remain controversial; the Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé, GIA) claimed responsibility for both, but in 2009, retired General François Buchwalter reported that the monks were killed by the Algerian army. [2]
System Mechanic is an easy solution for optimal PC performance and simple computing. Once downloaded, it helps speed up slow computers by removing unnecessary software and files and fixes problems ...
The long protracted turmoil of dynastic wars had made germinate in their real victims, the Albanians, the seeds of national sentiment which contained great promise, so that, when after Emperor Stefan Dušan's death, a descendant of Stefan Uroš I, returned to the province, the inhabitants rose en masse and, under the leadership of Karl Thopia, cut down the pretender and his entire force in the ...