Painting with stones!
The annual exhibition »Im Steinbruch der Zeit« (In the Quarry of Time, 2020) provided an opportunity to take a closer look at rocks – not only from a geological point of view, but also as a medium for painting.
In addition to plants, sand, coloured earths and rocks have been used for centuries to extract colour pigments. With little effort, works of art can be created…
Concept and Management:
Wolfgang Breul (Mainz), Thomas Ruhland, Christian Soboth, Holger Zaunstöck (Halle) in Verbindung mit Katherine Faull (Lewisburg) und Paul Peucker (Bethlehem)
Concept and Management:
Daniel Haas (Hamburg), Stanislau Paulau (Halle), Stefano Saracino (Jena/München), Friedemann Stengel (Halle), Holger Zaunstöck (Halle)
In the formative phase of…
To mark the anniversary year »1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany«, the Association of Independent Cultural Institutes (AsKI) has launched a portal entitled “Tsurikrufn” – the Yiddish word for ‘remembering’. For this collaborative digital project, the member institutes have opened their archives and tell impressive stories of Jews who are connected to their houses and their contributions to…
Thanks to generous funding from the state of Saxony-Anhalt from the special Covid-19 funds, the project »Digitisation of Historical Architectural Drawings, Building and Property Records from the Archive of the Francke Foundations« was realised at the August Hermann Francke Study Centre. The aim of the project was to permanently preserve and make digitally accessible key sources on the…
With the two recently published volumes, the edition of »Johann Crüger: Praxis Pietatis Melica«, now comprising six volumes and edited by Dr Hans-Otto Korth and Dr Wolfgang Miersemann, has been completed.
This has opened up one of the most important hymnbooks of the 17th century, which was also important for the emerging pietism. Many of his songs are among the most familiar today. Johann…
The so-called Tranquebar Archive is the preserved part of the archive created by the missionaries of the Danish-Halle Mission in Tranquebar (today Tharangambadi) in the 18th century. The holdings include correspondence between the mission leadership in Halle, Denmark, and England, as well as between supporters of the mission inside and outside Germany and the missionaries in southern India. It…
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