Word: wechselburg
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...
...cast of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg was purchased by the Germanic Museum Association. This cast belongs to the first half of the thirteenth century, and is one of the finest specimens of the Romanesque style of German sculpture...
...plaster cast of the pulpit in the Church of Wechselburg, Saxony, presented to the Germanic Museum by Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, has just been put in place in the museum. The cast is a massive structure about twelve feet in height and made in the Romanesque style of the early eighteenth century architecture. Being placed in the right wing of the museum the light from the skylight on this piece is excellent...
...other large casts have been bought by the 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...
Professor Kuno Francke, eurator of the Germanic Museum, has just received an official message from Saxony to the effect that His Majesty King Friedrich August has given to the Museum a full-sized reproduction in plaster of the sandstone pulpit of the church of Wechselburg, near Leipzig...