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A few months ago I posted a photo of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, so I thought I would keep the delicate balance with a picture of Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. Lorenzo Ghiberti condensed the Old Testament into ten panels to produce one of the defining masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and it is available for your viewing pleasure at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Sheer awesomeness.
Apollonius, Boxer at Rest, 1st century B.C.E. (may be a copy of a 4th century sculpture), bronze, Palazzo Massimo, Museo Nazionale Romano
The Sierra Leone-flagged EDRO III struck a rock and ran into trouble about ten miles from the shore of Paphos and became disabled. The Edro III drifted until it finally went ashore near Peyia, hitting the rocks between 4am and 5am on 8 December 2011 in heavy seas, during a voyage to Rhodes, from Limassol, Cyprus with a cargo of plasterboard. The ship got stuck broadside approximately 15 metres from the shore with the bow wedged in a rocky stretch of the beach.
At the time of the accident, the ship had nine crew members - seven Albanians and two Egyptians. The crew were rescued and airlifted to the safety of Paphos by a local British Military helicopter.
The EDRO III weighs about 2,345 tons and is over 80 meters in length.
The Sierra Leone-flagged EDRO III struck a rock and ran into trouble about ten miles from the shore of Paphos and became disabled. The Edro III drifted until it finally went ashore near Peyia, hitting the rocks between 4am and 5am on 8 December 2011 in heavy seas, during a voyage to Rhodes, from Limassol, Cyprus with a cargo of plasterboard. The ship got stuck broadside approximately 15 metres from the shore with the bow wedged in a rocky stretch of the beach.
At the time of the accident, the ship had nine crew members - seven Albanians and two Egyptians. The crew were rescued and airlifted to the safety of Paphos by a local British Military helicopter.
The EDRO III weighs about 2,345 tons and is over 80 meters in length.
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** Even'Tide . . Evening . ..
* * The Dwindling of the Year . . The Dwindling Day . . Day's End . . Last Light . . Fading Light . . * * : : : : : * * .
Wabi-Sabi . .. .
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563-1639), active in Rome and England
Christ carrying the Cross, around 1605/07
When Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha "also women ran behind", who mourned and lamented him. And Jesus turned to them, saying, "You daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, weep for you and for your children." Under the direct impression of Caravaggio, Gentileschi painted with seriousness and pathos this moving moment from the Passion.
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563-1639), tätig in Rom und England
Kreuztragung Christi, um 1605/07
Als Jesus sein Kreuz nach Golgotha trug "liefen auch Frauen hinterdrein", die ihn beweinten und beklagten. Und Jesus wandte sich zu ihnen und sprach: Ihr Töchter Jerusalems, weint nicht über mich, weint über euch und eure Kinder". Unter dem unmittelbaren Eindruck Caravaggios malte Gentileschi mit Ernst und Pathos diesen ergreifenden Moment aus der Passion.
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
Federal Museum
Logo KHM
Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Founded 17 October 1891
Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria
Management Sabine Haag
www.khm.at website
Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.
The museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.
History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .
Architectural History
The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).
From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.
Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.
Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.
The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .
Kuppelhalle
Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)
Grand staircase
Hall
Empire
The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.
189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:
Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Antique Collection
The coins and medals collection
Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects
Weapons collection
Collection of industrial art objects
Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)
Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.
Restoration Office
Library
Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.
1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.
The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.
Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.
First Republic
The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.
It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.
On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.
Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.
With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Collection of ancient coins
Collection of modern coins and medals
Weapons collection
Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Picture Gallery
The Museum 1938-1945
Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.
With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.
After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.
The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.
The museum today
Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.
In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.
Management
1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials
1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director
1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director
1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director
1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director
1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation
1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation
1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director
1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation
1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director
1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director
1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director
1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director
1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director
1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director
1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director
1990: George Kugler as interim first director
1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director
Since 2009: Sabine Haag as general director
Collections
To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.
Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)
Picture Gallery
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Vienna Chamber of Art
Numismatic Collection
Library
New Castle
Ephesus Museum
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Arms and Armour
Archive
Hofburg
The imperial crown in the Treasury
Imperial Treasury of Vienna
Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage
Insignia of imperial Austria
Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire
Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure
Ecclesiastical Treasury
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna
Armory in Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle
Collections of Ambras Castle
Major exhibits
Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:
Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438
Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80
Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16
Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526
Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07
Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75
Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68
Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06
Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508
Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32
The Little Fur, about 1638
Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Kids, 1560
Tower of Babel, 1563
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564
Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565
Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Bauer and bird thief, 1568
Peasant Wedding, 1568/69
Peasant Dance, 1568/69
Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567
Cabinet of Curiosities:
Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543
Egyptian-Oriental Collection:
Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut
Collection of Classical Antiquities:
Gemma Augustea
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
Gallery: Major exhibits
"Your Ethos
Your Pathos
Your Porthos
Your Aramis
Your Brut Cologne
You're writing home
You are hopeless
Your hopelessness
Is rising around you, rising around you
You like it
It gives you something to do
In the day time
Hey buddy, you need a hobby
You are tired of moving forward
You think of the future
And secretly you piddle your pants
The puddle of piddle
Which used to be little
Is rising around you, rising around you
You like it
It gives you something to do
In the night time
Well, you travel to bars
You also go to Winchell's Doughnuts
And hang out with the Highway Patrol
Sometimes you'll go to a pizza place
You go toSharkey's to get that
American kind of pizza
That has the ugly, waxey, fake yellow kind
Of yellow Cheese on the top...
Then you go to Straw Hat Pizza,
To get all of those artificial ingredients
That never belonged on a pizza in the first place
(But the white people really like it...)
Oh well, you'll go anyplace, you'll do anything
Oh you'll give me your underpants
I hope these aren't yours, buddy...
They're very nice, though
You'll go to Santa Monica Boulevard,
You'll go to the Blue Parrot
No problem, you'll go anyplace
You'll do anything
Just so you can hang out with the others
The others just like you
Afraid of the future
(Death Valley Days, straight ahead)
The future is scary
Yes, it sure is
Well, the puddle is rising
It smells like the ocean
A body of water to isolate England
And also Reseda
The oil, in patches
All over Atlantis, Atlantis
You remember Atlantis
Donovan, the guy with the brocade coat,
Used to sing to you about Atlantis
You loved it, you were so involved then
That was back in the days when you used to
Smoke a banana
You would scrape the stuff off the middle
You would smoke it
You even thought you was getting ripped from it
No problem
Ah Atlantis, they could really get down there
The plankton, the krill
The giant underwater pyramid, the squid decor
Excuse me. Todd
The big ol' giant underwater door
The dome, the bubbles, the blue light
Light, light, light, light
Blue light blue light
The seepage, the sewage, the rubbers, the napkins
Your ethos, your pathos
Your flag hole, your port-hole
Your language
You're frightened
Your future
You can't even speak your own fucking language
You can't read it anymore
You can't write it anymore
Your language
The future of your language
Your meat loaf
Don't let your meat loaf
Heh, Heh, Heh
Your Micro-Nanette
Your Brut
Cologne"
[Frank Zappa - The Blue Light]
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First off: apologies for the delay; let's get right to the goodies from other creators on display today!
Today, from The Darkness, Elsa is wearing:
.lovelysweet.'s Pathos Eyes. Available in BOM, Lelutka applier, and Omega applier, this set has 16 colors with some really lovely detail to them. I love eye colors with dynamic range to them, and this set delivers stunning colors that earn a second look.
I promised earlier to show off the jacket in Ahlure's Lucy outfit, and here it is! Layered with the Lucy top, as well. The jacket & top both feature a dozen color styles--and you can choose to make the top mesh fabric for a more risque style! There's a matching skirt and garter in the set as well, not shown here--all sized for Belleza, Kupra, Legacy, Reborn, and Maitreya (shown).
Moon Black's Brenda set comes with shorts, sneakers, and a top, sized for Freya, Legacy, and the Maitreya, and features a HUD with six colors for each....None of which is shown here. What IS here? The amazing BOM stockings that also come in the set! I really like the other pieces in the set as well, but I have maybe become addicted to using those stockings in any outfit they could remotely fit on...
Speaking of stuff from this round of The Darkness that I am maybe a little too addicted to...I still love VIO's Mystical Kicks, and I'm still popping those on any chance I get, as well. These comfy shoes come in unisex rigged for Aesthetic, Belleza (Mens/Womens), Legacy (Mens/Womens), Signature (Mens), Reborn, Slink (Mens/Womens), Tonic, and Maitreya (Pictured), and has a hud with a dozen patterned and solid options to choose from.
This picture, by the way, was shot in WLS's Autumn Skybox! 75LI when rezzed from its box, this skybox features two rooms separated by the sliding door you see in the background, an open floor plan space, and slatted windows that give a loft attic space feel. It was a fun place to take photos in, with a lot of thoughtful design details that make it feel engaging as a place to decorate and live in, without being too much. I highly recommend checking out more info at the booth at The Darkness!
Speaking of, you only have until the 28th to check out these exclusives and more, so be sure to head over to The Darkness and take a peek!
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I love photographing churches. Their interiors are far more interesting that your average building and they all hold a sense of purpose. Oakland's ultra modern cathedral is way up there on my awesome meter. The interior hull is made of wood with spaces for the light to shine through the glass exterior. The ceiling is a futuristic spaceship design and there is a huge projection of Christ in the center. The best part is that you always feel welcome when you are there (even if you have a camera and tripod!)
Logos: "word," "speech" or "reason." In persuasion, it is the logical reasoning behind the author's statements.
Ethos: "moral" and "showing moral character." For speakers and writers, their ethos is made from their credibility, presentation and similarity to their audience.
Pathos: "suffering" and "experience." In rhetoric, this translates to the speaker or writer's ability to evoke emotions and feelings from the audience.
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There is no better place to try out infrared photography than a wooded area. We were doing a quick trek through Mariposa Grove in Yosemite when we came across this giant sequoia tree. I wanted to accentuate its huge stature so I got up close to the base and shot up with a wide angle lens. The infrared gives it an extra bit of uniqueness.
I wonder if anyone would notice if I hollowed out the middle and lived inside?
and again I have bought mod at www.flickr.com/photos/shingles_cat/ :D
at my male and female characters became on one pathos dress more))
I do not want to be reflective any more
Envying and despising unreflective things
Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting
And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of sand
Flushed, by the children's bedtime, level with the shore.
The tide comes in and goes out again, I do not want
To be always stressing either its flux or its permanence,
I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus
But to keep my eye only on the nearer future
And after that let the sea flow over us.
Come then all of you, come closer, form a circle,
Join hands and make believe that joined
Hands will keep away the wolves of water
Who howl along our coast. And be it assumed
That no one hears them among the talk and laughter.
Instruction # 46: "Make a picture that is funny and sad at the same time. A photograph that simultaneously evokes pathos, irony and humour." - Jeff Mermelstein
Johann Elias Grimmel (1703-1759). "Jonah ejected by the whale" (1739).
The restoration of this painting was taken by the Lions Club Memmingen. Stemming from a Memming merchant family, had the born on October 28, 1703 Johann Elias Grimmel himself trained as a painter with Johann Friedrich Sichelbein and after his death with Jerome Hau in Kempten. During his twelve-year period of study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Vienna (1726-38), in 1734 the Second Price falls to him in the held annually painting competition. After a brief interlude in Memmingen, he was appointed in 1741 as a teacher of drawing and painting at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, where he died on January 12, 1759 on "apoplexy". The workshop tradition of Sichelbein connecting with the pathos of Viennese Baroque, Grimmel in his panel paintings for St. Martin achieves considerable painterly quality.
Johann Elias Grimmel (1703 - 1759). "Jonas vom Walfisch ausgeworfen" (1739).
Die Restauration dieses Gemäldes wurde vom Lions Club Memmingen übernommen. Aus einer Memminger Handelsfamilie stammend, lässt sich der am 28. Oktober 1703 geborene Johann Elias Grimmel bei Johann Friedrich Sichelbein und nach dessen Tod bei Hieronymus Hau in Kempten zum Maler ausbilden. Während seiner zwölfjährigen Studienzeit an der Kaiserlichen Kunstakademie in Wien (1726-38) fällt ihm 1734 der II. Preis im alljährlich stattfindenden Malwettbewerb zu. Nach einem kurzen Intermezzo in Memmingen wird er 1741 als Lehrer für Zeichnen und Malen an die Akademie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg berufen, wo er am 12. Januar 1759 am "Schlagfluss" stirbt. Die Werkstatttradition Sichelbeins mit dem Pathos des Wiener Barock verbindend, gelangt Grimmel in seinen Tafelbildern für St. Martin zu beachtlicher malerischer Qualität.
Chevaliers de la Croix avec l'Étoile Rouge, Caballeros de la Cruz con la Estrella Roja
Kreuzherrenkloster Memmingen
Church building with its distinctive tower from the Hallhof (depository)
Detail of richly with Wessobrunner stucco decorated church ceiling
Church ceiling frescoes
The Kreuzherrenkloster (monastery of the Knights of the Cross with the red stars) Memmingen is a former monastery of the Order of the Holy Ghost in Memmingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg.
History
The beginnings of the Holy Spirit consecrated monastery date back to the 13th century. Counterfeit refer to the year 1010, which was before the founding of the city of Memmingen in 1160. It was probably in 1210 by the Staufian Empire bailiff in Upper Swabia, count Heinrich von Neuffen-Weißenhorn and his wife Hedwig, donated. This ones established at the eastern edge of the central city in front of the gate Kalchtor a hospital, equipped it with landed property and handed it over to the Hospitaller Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Spirit in Rome, whose main activity focus was the care of the sick and the homeless and the admission of pregnant women and foundlings. After a devastating fire in 1223, the monastery and the hospital had to be rebuilt, in this context, it is also for the first time mentioned in the municipal document.
Since 1353, the City Council took part in the management of the hospital, in 1365 the hospital complex was divided into a lower and an upper Hospital. To the now directly managed by the Imperial City Lower Hospital belonged the Poor room on the ground floor and several adjoining rooms, to the remaining with the monastery Upper Hospital belonged furthermore the Church of St. Peter and Paul and the upper floors of the monastery and convent building. In the room for needy persons concentrated the imperial city charitable organisations. Together with the Antonite monastery the Crusaders shaped the intellectual and cultural life of the imperial city.
In a fire in 1477, again large parts of the complex were destroyed. The hospital church was rebuilt in 1480-1484 as a Gothic hall church and the whole complex obtained the form of a towards to the south lain Hallhof open three-winged complex. 1484 was southwards adjacent to the church building a tower built. In the years 1709-1711 the church was remodelled in Baroque style and fitted out with Wessobrunner stuck by Matthias Stiller and his son Michael Stiller (plasterer). The ceiling paintings stem from Johann Friedrich Sichelbein.
Shortly after the mediatization of the Free Imperial City and the transfer to the Electorate of Bavaria in 1802, the monastery was secularized. All expendable and movable properties of the monastery in 1803 were auctioned, the last Canons 1804 left the house. Still until the year 1806, the church was used as a parish church, after which it served as a timber warehouse. The room for the needy until 1816 served for the accommodation of prebendaries, in the monastery premises Bavarian officials were housed. Although the church and the steeple first in favor of a new toll and customs building should be demolished, but they would do without it from 1819 on since other areas were vacated and the demand for a new building was not given. Therefore, from 1820 the room for the needy served as storage space. The church was rebuilt into a goods hall, in the northern and southern side wall each a large gate entrance was broken, orchestra and pulpit were demolished. The stucco in the lower area was knocked off and vault and basements were demolished in order to obtain a ground-level access. In the nave itself a false floor was inserted and a wooden crane mounted. To the north, the entire complex was provided with a classicist facade.
Due to the foundation of the German Reich, the building as depository and Customs Office was increasingly without function, which is why the City Council in 1920 requested to expose in the former vestry works of Memminger painters. After a water pipe breakage was discussed in 1932 to relocate the municipal art collection to the unused nave, for cost reasons but this solution was discarded, and only from 1947 on the upper part of the nave was used as an exhibition and concert hall. The ground floor was combined with the room for the needy persons and from 1960 as a hospital arch as an open walkway used. In the convent building various municipal facilities were housed: the sing and music school, the Stadtjugendring (city youth council) and psycho-social support center.
The as a whole neglected complex from 1998 to 2003 was according to original plans elaborately rehabilitated and restored. In the process, inter alia, the intermediate floor in the nave was removed and restored the room for needy people of the hospital. Today the church hall serves again as an exhibition and event space, the Poor facility as a café.
Buildings
Steeple
The compex consisted of a hospital with attachments for economical use, as well as an east adjacent church and a convent building. The complex burned down several times, as part of the reconstruction work it was repeatedly extended and modified.
Poor facility
The oldest still surviving part is the Poor facility. Its two-aisled, four-yoked and vaulted by a ribbed vault hall dates from the early 15th century. By hospital master Elias Bruggberger extensive construction were induced from 1675 to 1680, at the same time, he Poor facility was expanded to additional floors in which two large halls were housed. The room on the second floor was provided in 1691 with a wooden coffered ceiling, which is largely still intact.
Monastery church
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1477 the abbey church of St. Peter and Paul in a fire was destroyed and rebuilt in the following years as equally two-aisled and four-yoked late Gothic hall church. As is common in many hospitals, it forms an extension of the Poor facility. After hospital master Sigismund Teufel it was from 1709 remodelled in Baroque style and the ceiling vaults probably by Matthias Stiller with Wessobrunner stucco coated. In each field of bays there are ceiling paintings, probably stemming from Memminger painter Johann Friedrich Sichelbein. Supported is the around 14 meter high vault of three stucco marble columns.