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Lida Gustave Heymann, Anita Augsburg, Frida Parlen, all of the Executive Committee of the German Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, sent a letter to Mrs. Lucy Biddie Lewis of Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United States section of the League, in which they stated: " We owe reparations; reconstruction of Northern France is a debt of honor with us. The French in 1919 failed in their great opportunity, when they might have forgiven us. Shall we fail in ours...
...history of art. I think we have succeeded in this. Nowhere else but in our Museum, not even in Germany, is there to be found such an impressive representation of early German architectural sculpture. Romanesque sculpture and architecture are fully brought to view by the Hildesheim monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve...
...both of its sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate...
...important additions to the collection of mediaeval German sculpture have recently been installed in the Germanic Museum. These are full-sized reproductions of the bronze gates of the Augsburg Cathedral and of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg, in Saxony. The former belong to the middle of the eleventh century, and are important evidence of the progress of technique in German plastic art after its beginnings in the Hildesheim School. There are altogether thirty-five panels, each of them containing some symbolical representation of Christian doctrine. The cast was bought partly with money given by the Germanic Department...
...museum, one of which is the cast of the crucifixion from the same church in Wechselburg. The piece, which is about 15 feet high, will be put at the entrance of one of the south alcoves. The other piece is a cast of the portal of the Cathedral of Augsburg in Germany, and will be built into the wall of the museum at the right of the main entrance...