Word: bamberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputy Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, crashed to earth in an airplane at Bamberg while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg to attend an aviation meet. The Prince, an experienced War pilot, was not seriously injured; the machine...
...which he acquired a number of notable additions to the collection of casts in the Germanic Museum at Harvard University. Among them are six statues of apostles and prophets from Strassburg Cathedral; a relief of the Last Judgement and the figures of the Church Triumphant and Synagogue Defeated from Bamberg Cathedral; six busts of Patriarchs and Saints from the Monastery of Blaubeuren; two 13th century statues of Abraham and Melchisedek from the church at Wechselburg; a 16th century Crucifixion from St. James Church at Lubeok; and the centrepiece of Bruggemann's High Altar at Schleswig Cathedral...
...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 statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again it may be pointed out that no other museum anywhere...