Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall shiver for the sun," Albrecht Durer wrote to a friend during h is stay in Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place...
...shall shiver for the sun," Albrecht Durer wrote to a friend during his stay in Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. The Germans were untouched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the South; they continued to develop the northern, medieval traditions, aloof to the the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
...Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result was a new style rather than merely a duplicate of the old; and a style that continued to develop Northern characteristics. Examples of this are the Coat of Arms of the German Empire and City of Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical example, the figures are worked out with regard to proportion and anatomical exactness, yet they are unmistakably Teutonic. In his treatment of St. Jerome and the Lion, a subject which occupied him several times, Durer shows the influence of changing spatial concepts until...
Elsie and Henry have not always lived where people could drop in for a snack or just to visit. Such things were impossible in Hitler's Germany by 1938. Until then, Henry had been in the meat business in Nuremberg, where the Baumanns lived comfortably with their two small sons. The Nazis changed all that. "We never planned to leave Germany," Elsie recalls, "we were happy. Then Hitler came, and we saw there could be no more happiness...
...then putting our honorable generals and admirals on trial in Nuremberg, hanging and imprisoning them for merely obeying orders like good soldiers, and calling it justice. Ach, terrible, inhuman. And what were you Americans doing while we fought to keep the Bolsheviks out of Europe? You were bombing our cities, killing our women and children." Glances of bitter experience mixed with the Germans' current attitude of mature forgiveness for our sins assured silence for Professor Glaubich's further dialectic...