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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...
...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 of Freiberg Cathedral, in such a manner as to form the entrance to the next hall, the Gothic...
...cast of the so-called Emperor Konrad III, the oldest equestrian statue of German sculpture, has been received by the Germanic Museum from His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent of Bavaria. It stands on a pillar in the transept of Bamberg Cathedral; and, since Konrad III is buried in this Cathedral, it is indeed possible that this equestrian statue was erected in his memory. There is, however, no direct evidence of this, and the statue itself shows unmistakable affinity to some princely figures of Rheims Cathedral. It is, therefore, probably safest to consider it as an ideal impersonation...