#german museum

[belovedapollo]

Solo museum date ! because it is important to take yourself out on some quality time with yourself 🫧 reblog ok, don’t repost

[empirearchives]

Strange incident in Berlin during the War of the 4th Coalition reported in Prussian newspapers

“After the unfortunate battle of Jena, Napoleon took up his headquarters in Charlottenburg Palace. He had barely gone to bed when the Prussian cavalry attack blared through the stillness of the night. Napoleon thought he had been ambushed and, startled, left his bed, rushed to the window and sounded the alarm. Everything rushes under the gun. The attack is blown again — and strangely enough — in the castle. An adjutant rushing from the Marble Hall finally solves the riddle. In that hall stands the Belloneon*, which His Majesty our King had had made by the acoustician Kaufmann in Dresden, a short time before that unfortunate battle, and which, on the King’s orders, had been provided with all the trumpet pieces of the Prussian cavalry. Napoleon’s curious companions had rummaged through the castle and had also come to the Belloneon in the Marble Hall. This strange instrument was examined and touched from all sides with genuine French curiosity. One happened to touch a small button that set the work in motion, and so it happened that a cavalry attack from 12 trumpets woke the Emperor from his sleep.”

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*A Belloneon is a mechanical musical instrument consisting of many trumpets and kettle drums. The German Museum has a Belloneon with 24 trumpets and two drums (Inv.-Nr. 9654), built in 1805/06 by Friedrich and his father Johann Gottfried Kaufmann.

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Original German:

»Nach der unglücklichen Schlacht bei Jena nahm Napoleon sein Hauptquartier im Schlosse von Charlottenburg. Er hatte sich kaum zu Bette begeben, als die preußische Cavallerie-Attaque durch die Stille der Nacht schmettert. Napoleon glaubt sich überfallen, fährt erschrocken von seinem Lager, stürzt an's Fenster und läßt Alarm schlagen. Alles eilt unters Gewehr. Die Attaque wird noch einmal geblasen - und sonderbar genug - im Schlosse. Ein aus dem Marmorsaale herbeieilender Adjutant löst endlich das Räthsel. In jenem Saale steht das Belloneon, welches Se. Maj. unser König von dem Akustiker Kaufmann in Dresden, kurze Zeit vor jener unglücklichen Schlacht, hatte verfertigen lassen, und welches auf Befehl des Königs mit allen Trompeterstücken der preußischen Cavallerie versehen worden war. Napoleon's neugierige Begleiter hatten das Schloß durchstöbert und waren auch zum Belloneon im Marmorsaale gekommen. Dieses merkwürdige Instrument wurde mit echt französischer Neugierde von allen Seiten untersucht und betastet. Man berührte zufällig ein kleines Knöpfchen, welches das Werk in Bewegung setzt, und so kam es, daß eine Cavallerie-Attaque von 12 Trompeten den Imperator aus dem Schlafe aufschmetterte.«

Source:

Wolf, Rebecca (2012). "Die Musikmaschinen von Kaufmann, Mälzel un Robertson: eine Quellenedition [The music machines of Kaufmann, Mälzel and Robertson: a source edition]" (pdf). Preprint (5). Deutsches Museum

[skyggsja]

august 26, 2023 - freilichtmuseum / open air museum in kommern, germany. the windows. i love them.

i mean i realize the houses are really dark and the windows are small and don‘t let in much light but the light looks so pretty through them. my house is rather dark with small windows but the light hits a bit different. i definitely hope to someday live in a house with beautiful huge windows. but in these old and cold houses the light that flows in gives a really beautiful atmosphere.

i also thought the little heart cutout in the toilet door was so cute haha

[cloverhighfive]

This woman is an international treasure.

I can't get over how calmly, in detail, and obvious arguments she exposes the shitfuckery of colonizers (to their descendants' face), while never falling into the insult trap.

[elisanous]

ㅤㅤㅤ Rebecca Horn. "Black Bath - Two Waves Gently Touching Each Other," c. 1986

[lionofchaeronea]

Empress Elizabeth of Austria with Loosened Hair, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1865

[didoofcarthage]

January calendar page with Janus and Capricorn, from the Stammheim Missal

German, probably 1170s

tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

[ronastudies]

march 22, 2024// Reading outside the Palais Universitaire on the first warm day of the year in just a t-shirt and leather jacket. Wandering through the small museum in the basement of the palais trying to decipher the Greek writing on maps. Cheap, overly sweet coffee from the vending machine and looking up theater plays to see in the evening.

[lake-lady]

Favorite historical glass from the glass museum today 🍧🔮

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803-1889) "Gartenblumenstrauß im Krug" ("Garden bouquet in the jug") (1831) Oil on canvas Located in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, German

[internationalemeteorologie]

Walter Gramatté

Still life with night city view. 1922-23 

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥. յճ𝔱𝔥 𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔶

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion.

Artist/Culture: German or Netherlandish

Date: late 13th or early 14th century

Period: Late Medieval

Medium: Brass

▪︎This unusual example bears a Hebrew inscription on one side that reads: (On the side and rear hip of the lion): ברוך אתה ה אלהינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצוותיו וצוונו על נטילת ידים ; [Translation] Blessed be God, King of the Universe, who blessed us and instructed us to wash our hands (Baruch ata adonai alokhenu meleh Ha-olam asher Ridshanu bemitsvotsar vetsivanu al netilas yadayim).

[skyggsja]

august 26, 2023 freilichtmuseum/ open air museum in kommern, germany. last one for today, but a couple of rooms and room details i liked. i love that so much is made of beautiful, long lasting wood 🪵. the ever present combination of white, brown and black is so pleasing to my eye. also, i‘m reading „angels and demons“ or „illuminati“ by dan brown at the moment and the elements ambigram is mentioned in the book as something the illuminati used? anyway, that awesome stone work thing in the centre can be turned 180° and still read the same words, that‘s what an ambigram is 🌞

[romegreeceart]

Dionysus mosaic

220-230 CE

Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne

Cologne, November 2017

ps. Just noticed, that this is my 400th - tagged - bird post :-) . Other 399 birds are here

[charlottearthistory]

two prints from ‘the war’ series (1924) - otto dix

otto dix served in the war of 1914-18 as an artillery gunner in the trenches. the german expressionist recreated the images that he saw in his nightmares in this series of prints, titled ‘the war’. for dix, prints like this were an exorcism of the horrors he saw.