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Loschwitz Cemetery
Loschwitz Cemetery () is the second burial ground, still in use, of Loschwitz, part of the city of Dresden, Germany, replacing the graveyard of Loschwitz Church, Loschwitz church, no longer used for burials. The cemetery was dedicated in about 1800. Because of the many artists buried here and the many artistically valuable funerary sculptures it is a protected monument. History In about 1800 the churchyard of Loschwitz became full, and so a new burial ground was opened on the road to Pillnitz, the present cemetery. It is laid out as a meadow. Over the years it has been enlarged several times in the direction of the old village centre of Loschwitz. It consists today of an old part and a new part, opened in 1918, and a place for urn burials, completed in 1927. In 1893 a chapel was added, by the architect Friedrich Reuter. The stained glass windows are by Wilhelm Walther (artist), Wilhelm Walther, the creator of the Dresden "Fürstenzug"; the scene of the Crucifixion over the cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Hegenbarth , a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments
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Josef may refer to *Josef (given name) *Josef (surname) * ''Josef'' (film), a 2011 Croatian war film *Musik Josef Musik Josef is a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments. It was founded by Yukio Nakamura and is the only company in Japan specializing in producing oboes and Cor anglais, cors anglais. Products Oboe *Josef AS, AS *Josef BS, BS *Josef MGS, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombing Of Dresden In World War II
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American Area bombardment, aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.*The number of bombers and tonnage of bombs are taken from a USAF document written in 1953 and classified secret until 1978 . * Taylor (2005), front flap, which gives the figures 1,100 heavy bombers and 4,500 tons. * Webster and Frankland (1961) give 805 Bomber Command aircraft 13 February 1945 and 1,646 US bombers 16 January – 17 April 1945."Mission accomplished", ''The Guardian'', 7 February 2004. The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than of the city centre. Up to 25,000 people were killed. Three more USAAF air raids followed, two occurring on 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Unger
Hans Unger (August 26, 1872 – August 13, 1936) was a German painter who was, during his lifetime, a highly respected Art Nouveau artist. His popularity did not survive the change in the cultural climate in Germany after World War I, however, and after his death he was soon forgotten. However, in the 1980s interest in his work revived, and a grand retrospective exhibition in 1997 in the City Museum in Freital, Germany, duly restored his reputation as one of the masters of the Dresden art scene around 1910. Trademark and artistic influences Unger was a portraitist and a landscape painter but his reputation stems from his paintings, most of them nearly life-size, of "beautiful women dreaming of Arcadia." In fact, it was always the same woman being portrayed: his wife in real life, his muse. Later, his daughter Maja came to share her mother's privileged position. The background to his "Arcadian woman" was quite often a pastoral landscape with high cypresses, a garden or a sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Lachnit
Wilhelm Lachnit (12 November 1899, , near Dresden — 14 November 1962, Dresden) was a German painter who was primarily active in Dresden. Life Lachnit was born in the small town of Gittersee; his family moved to Dresden in 1906. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden under Richard Guhr, and later at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he was acquainted with and influenced by Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, and Otto Griebel. He joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1924 and was active in producing various forms of Agitprop throughout the 1920s. He co-founded the "Neue Gruppe" with Hans Grundig, Otto Griebel, and Fritz Skade; successful exhibitions in Paris, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, and Dresden followed. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Lachnit's work was declared " degenerate" and confiscated by authorities. During this period he was not allowed to make art and worked as an exhibition designer. Much of his confiscated work was destroyed during the February 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Zwintscher
Oskar Zwintscher (2 May 1870, in Leipzig – 12 February 1916, in Dresden) was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement. Life From 1887 to 1890 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and, from 1890 to 1892 was a student of Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. After his studies, he became a free-lance painter in Meißen, where he received a stipendium, awarded to Saxon painters by the "Munkeltsche Legat". This enabled him to work for three years with no financial worries. In 1898, he presented his first large collection of paintings to the public. That same year, he was a prizewinner at a contest held by the entrepreneur Stollwerck, Ludwig Stollwerck to select artists for a new line of trading cards. His first series of cards, "Jahreszeiten" (The Seasons), was published later that year. This was followed in 1900 by "Das Gewitter" (The Tempest). Four years later he, in turn, became a judge at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Balden-Wolff
Annemarie (or Annamarie, Annmarie) is a Danish, Dutch and German feminine given name. It is a merging of the names Anne and Marie. Notable people named Annemarie * Annemarie Biechl (born 1949), German politician * Annemarie Bischofberger (born 1960), Swiss alpine skier * Annemarie Bostroem (1922–2015), German poet, playwright, and lyricist * Princess Annemarie de Bourbon de Parme (born 1977), Dutch journalist and consultant * Annemarie Buchmann-Gerber (1947–2015), Canadian textile artist * Annemarie Buchner (1924–2014), German alpine skier * Annemarie Cox (born 1966), Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist * Annemarie Davidson (1920–2012), American copper enamel artist * Annemarie Düringer (1925–2014), Swiss actress * Annemarie Ebner (born 1940s), Austrian luger * Annemarie Eilfeld (born 1990), German singer and songwriter * Annemarie Esche (1925–2018), German Burmese scholar * Annemarie Forder (born 1978), Australian sport shooter * Annemarie von Gabain (1901â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Wolff
William Wolff (born Wilhelm Wolff; 13 February 19278 July 2020), also known as Willy Wolff, was a German-British journalist and rabbi. Life Wolff was born in Berlin on 13 February 1927 as one of three children of German Jews. When he was six years old, his parents fled to Amsterdam with them and from there to London in 1939. After studies, including economics, Wolff became a journalist. He worked as a department head at the ''Daily Mirror''. Wolff was initially responsible for domestic policy, but then switched to foreign policy with the special topic of Britain's accession to the European Economic Community. He was responsible for company news for four years. In Germany, he also appeared in the early 1970s on the television program. From 1979 auch almp3-Audio 39,7 MB; 43:25 Minuten to 1984, Wolff received an education at Leo Baeck College; in early July 1984, he received the Semicha (rabbinical ordination) in London. He worked, among other places, at the West Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Peterich
Paul Friedrich Gustav Peterich, born Petersen (1 February 1864, Bad Schwartau - 22 September 1937, Rotterdam) was a German sculptor. Life and work His father, Jasper Hinrich Petersen (1833–1920), was originally from Bad Bramstedt and worked as a journeyman Woodturning, turner. When his employer died in 1861, Petersen married his widow, Magdalena Margarete (1829–1905). He eventually became a Master turner, and a member of the City Council. They had three sons. Paul, their second, learned the woodworking trade; including turnery. He later attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Lübeck, where he was exposed to art for the first time, and was inspired to pursue it further. In 1884, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, an expert on art, saw one of Peterich's student pieces and provided a scholarship that enabled him to attend the Berlin University of the Arts. There, he finished in the master class taught by Fritz Schaper. During his studies, in 1887, he entered a competition to desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
