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Thus spake immortal Albrecht Dürer who could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable...
...Zimmermann, Director of the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, and Mrs. Zimmermann, were the guests yesterday of Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, visiting lecturer on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture. Dr. Zimmermann is visiting leading American museums for the first time, and is also visiting many private art collections in this country...
...Zimmermann studied under Professor Goldschmidt in Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany, and by reason of his connection with the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg, which contains the originals of many works of art duplicated at the University, was keenly interested in the Germanic Museum. The New Fogg Museum was described by Dr. Zimmermann as the finest new museum building he has seen. Dr. Zimmermann pointed out that the Nuremberg Goose-Man, a cast of which stands in the foremost of the Germanic Museum here, is not available for any museum, as it is kept in a public square of Nuremberg...
Another reproduction which attracted Dr. Zimmermann's attention was the cast of the Nuremberg Madonna, the original wooden statue of which, made in the work-shop of Peter Vischer, is conceded to be the finest early German sculpture, and is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum...
...Zimmermann recalled that the Germanic Museum here was designed by the same architect, Dr., German Bestelmeyer, who has built new wings at the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, which he described as a medieval church made over into a museum. Originally a church of Carthusian friars in the late fourteenth century, the museum has been enlarged until it comprises five large buildings, and has roughly 200 rooms, Dr. Zimmermann explained...