Impressions from Luxemburg November 19-21, 2025, on generous invitation by @kulturlx on the occasion of @luxembourgartweek .
Visit of outstanding exhibit by @studiodavidclaerbout at @konschthal_esch . Introduced by its fabulous director @christianmosar .
Presentation by @jil_lahr
Network dinner with @aapl.lu
Booth at @luxembourgartweek by @valeriusgallery with works by @filip__markiewicz
Visit at @mudamlux with guided tour by director Bettina Steinbrügge through the extensive exhibition of Eleanor Antin.
Visit at Musée national d'archéologie, d'histoire et d'art with guided tour by curator Ruud Priem. Works from the historic collection including a mosaic floor from a Roman villa.
Video installation by Léa Giordano outside @casino_display
It was a great time. Thank you very much!
Braunschweig
October 29/30, 2025
#braunschweig #brunswick
Brunswick Lion
The first large detached sculpture of the Middle Ages north of the Alps and the first large hollow casting of a figure since antiquity, created in bronze between 1164 and 1176.
Cathedral
Henry the Lion established the original foundation as a collegiate church, built between 1173 and 1195, Consecrated December 1226, redisigned 1935-38, including the crypta.
In the nave the scultpural monument of Henry the Lion (German: Heinrich der Löwe; 1129/1131– 1195, cousin of Kaiser Frederick Barbarossa) and Matilda of England (1156 – 1189, princess of the House of Plantagenet), executed between 1230 and 1240. In the crypt below thei tombs in its redesign of the Nazi party 1935.
Two images of the Kunstverein Braunschweig, founded 1832, and located since 1946 in Villa Salve Hospes on Lessingplatz, which was built in the classicist style between 1805 and 1808 by the architect Peter Joseph Krahe as the private residence of the merchant Dietrich Wilhelm Krause.
A selection of remarkable paintings at The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Rembrandt, Vermeer and a portrait by Johann Joachim Winkelmann, copy of the original by Anton von Maron, 1768)
The name Braunschweig originates from the Old Saxon Bruneswic, meaning “Bruno’s settlement.” It likely refers to a nobleman named Bruno who lived in the 9th century and may have founded the place. The second part, -wic (or -wick), comes from Old Saxon and Old Norse, meaning “settlement” or “trading place.” Over the centuries, the name evolved from Brunesguik to Brunswik and finally to Braunschweig. In essence, the city’s name means “the settlement of Bruno.”
Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. He had renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and was stateless for several years. To enable him to run for the presidency, members of the Nazi Party in the government of Braunschweig (not from the city but from the Freistaat Braunschweig!!) appointed him as a civil servant in the state’s representation in Berlin on February 25, 1932. This bureaucratic act automatically granted him German citizenship, even though he never actually performed the job.
