Bilder aus Deutschland

[Your Old Comrade]

The Marienaltar in Creglingen (between 1505-1510) from the hand of Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531)







The church: (Herrgottskirche).

[Your Old Comrade]

German soldiers in what seems to be Wetzlar, probably leaving for the front (1914?)

[Your Old Comrade]

Wetzlar - in Hessen.

Wetzlar is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. A former free imperial city, it gained much of its fame as the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht) of the Holy Roman Empire. Located 51 kilometers north of Frankfurt, Wetzlar straddles the river Lahn and is on the German Timber-Frame Road, which passes mile upon mile of half-timbered houses. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis on the north edge of the Taunus. Tourists know the city for its ancient town and its medieval Catholic/Protestant shared cathedral of St. Mary.

Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep gradients and tightly-packed street layout of a medieval town. The building of the sandstone cathedral commenced in the 12th century in Romanesque style. In the later Middle Ages the construction continued under a master plan in Gothic style. The church was never finished—one steeple still remains uncompleted. The cathedral suffered heavy damage in the Second World War from aerial bombing, but restoration took place in the 1950s. On the outskirts of town along the river stand the ruins of several stone towers.

[Your Old Comrade]

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Selbstbildnis im Pelzrock.
Frontalporträt mit Idealisierung vergleichbar mit Christusdarstellungen; betonter Blick und die schöpferische Hand als Werkzeuge des Künstlers.
Alte Pinakothek, München.

[rothaer]

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Selbstbildnis im Pelzrock.
Frontalporträt mit Idealisierung vergleichbar mit Christusdarstellungen; betonter Blick und die schöpferische Hand als Werkzeuge des Künstlers.
Alte Pinakothek, München.

Maybe an early "Danube Swabian"? :

"Albrecht Dürers gleichnamiger Vater kam 1455 aus Gyula in Ungarn nach Nürnberg und übte hier erfolgreich den Handwerksberuf eines Goldschmieds aus. 1467 heiratete er Barbara Holper (* 1452; † 16. Mai 1514), die Tochter des Hieronymus Holper."

"Der Name Dürer leitet sich indirekt vom ungarischen Ajtósi ab. Albrecht Dürer der Ältere, der aus dem Dorf Ajtós in der Nähe der Stadt Gyula in Ungarn stammte, ist in Ungarn unter diesem Namen (Ajtósi Dürer Albrecht) bekannt. In Deutschland nannte er sich anfangs Thürer (= Türmacher), was auf Ungarisch ajtós heißt (ajtó = Tür).

Albrecht Dürer glich die von seinem Vater gebrauchte Schreibweise Türer an die in Nürnberg übliche fränkische Aussprache der harten Konsonanten (Lenisierung) an und schuf mit der Umwandlung in Dürer die Voraussetzung für sein Monogramm, das große A mit dem untergestellten D."

[Your Old Comrade]

Museen und archäologische Fundstellen vom römischen Mainlimes zwischen Groß-Krotzenburg (Hessen) und Miltenberg (Bayern). Erstellt 2009 im Rahmen des Projektes "Archäologische Museen vernetzt" (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen, München / Archäologische Staatssammlung, München / CHC Universität Salzburg / Finanzierung: Bayerische Sparkassenstiftung). Autor: Boundary Productions.

[Your Old Comrade]

German Art from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

[rothaer]

(Main-Limes)

Do you know for the comparably recent (2009) find of a horse head in Waldgirmes that is considered to have belonged to an official Augustus bronze statue?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B...nau-Waldgirmes

I don't know whether this is currently disputed or not but to me it's pretty clear that Rome had conquered and integrated Germania west of the Elbe river into the Roman Empire for some ten to fifteen years when the battle with Arminius took place. Which gives this battle likely even bigger consequences than previously thought.

[Your Old Comrade]

Do you know for the comparably recent (2009) find of a horse head in Waldgirmes that is considered to have belonged to an official Augustus bronze statue?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B...nau-Waldgirmes

I don't know whether this is currently disputed or not but to me it's pretty clear that Rome had conquered and integrated Germania west of the Elbe river into the Roman Empire for some ten to fifteen years when the battle with Arminius took place. Which gives this battle likely even bigger consequences than previously thought.

I wasn't aware of this. That is a great find!

[Your Old Comrade]