Neues Museum

developed by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger (1910-1980) and co-developed by Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland owned by Linotype. The steadily popular typeface was officially released in 1957 under the name ‘Die Neue Haas Grotesk’. The original name was kept until 1960, and was changed to Helvetica (Latin for Swiss) by a marketing manager within the company due to expressing their successful plans to market the font internationally, and to do so they…

Grosz Goerge George Grosz is one of the principal artists associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, and was a member of the Berlin Dada group. After observing the horrors of war as a soldier in World War I, Grosz focused his art on social critique. He became deeply involved in left wing pacifist activity, publishing drawings in many satirical and critical periodicals and participating in protests and social upheavals. His drawings and paintings from the Weimar era…

com). There are four versions of The Scream where two of them are paintings and the other two where done with pastels. One of these paintings is located in the National gallery in Oslo (totalhistory.com). The other painting is located in the Munch Museum where they also own one version of the pastels (totalhistory.com). Petter Olsen privately owns the last pastel artwork and is auctioning it off for $80 million dollars making it the most valuable auction ever made…

The cultural artifact that I propose to study is the bust of the Queen Nefertiti who was an Egyptian queen and the Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. The Queen is known to the modern world for her famed illuminous bust that now resides in Berlin’s museum. Nefertiti’s bust was created by the sculptor Thutmose and was discovered in his workshop by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt. The bust is an example of providing us, the Ancient Egyptians examples of art and how they regard facial…

Germany and West Germany Bonn. In 1967 students demanding reforms in education and politics of West Germany demonstrated. Over West Germany regained some economic stability. East Berlin was an important cultural center for the Museum Island and its five museums: Altes, Neues, Alte National galerie, Pergamon and Bodemuseum. And in 1989 this wall was destroyed. In 1969 there was a crisis of the Cuban perhaps one of the episodes that almost caused…

to Work” was a self-portrait of Van Gogh, which showed his isolation in detail (Meier). Van Gogh painted himself walking on a road in Provence, with his art supplies on his two hands and his back (Meier). This artwork was placed in Kaiser Freidrich Museum in Berlin and was eventually lost to fire in 1945…

major turning point in his style of art came after he viewed Claude Monet’s “Haystack at Giverny” at a Moscow exhibition. Over the years he perfected his style of abstract art. He inspired other artists, wrote books on his theories, worked with museums, and ballet’s, experienced his work at exhibitions, and started and belonged to various societies. He was said to have a balanced, self-controlled, and poised personality. He was reserved, but full of compassion, had a sense of humor, and an…

The bust of Nefertiti was discovered by a German archaeological team led by Ludwig Borchardt in 1912 at Amarna. After transferring several times in different locations, the bust of Nefertiti finally settled in Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. As the meaning of her name – “the beautiful one has come forth”, Nefertiti is one of the most famous and beautiful symbols of the ancient world. She was the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. A great deal of the arts of…

It is currently located in the "Neue Nationalgalerie" in Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany). It is a ground level perspective painting of the Chatou bridge on a late summer morning, portraying a consistent rhythm through the visible paintbrush strokes of color, that convey a strong…