Friedrich Roeingh, the editor of the regional Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung picked up on my research and published this article in yesterday’s weekend edition. (DeepL.com translation below) No more kicking the…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
Advertising pillar outside the Gutenberg Museum
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
is worth a….no, better not go there….. Seraphic avian feeding at the Gutenberg Museum
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
The aerial walkway linking Rainer Schell‘s 1961 museum with the 2000 extension
Someone throw him a lifejacket! Failing that, this is his imminent (not a happy one, I might add…) future: Hypoosmolar water affects the surface tension of alveolar surfactant, causing an…
Medical students in the making at the Gutenberg Museum’s print shop.
School class on the market and at the Gutenberg museum Clipboards loaded with questions and tasks, one of which is to replicate Carolingia text (below) with a quill (top). Verbal…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated the information…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated the…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. Google has kindly misplaced posts…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now (2017) updated…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now (2017) updated the…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated (2017) the…
A while back, I did a fairly flippant post about the 4 bronze panels in front of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Walked past them often enough on the way…
> You say “tomayto” “mailbox”, we say “tomahto” “letterbox” OK, so technically it’s a typecase, but if you can put letters in it and it’s a box, then it’s a…
This is a good story. Elements of revolution and conspiracies, provincialism and politics, neglect and vandalism, war and peace, fire and water. And two lovely people. Yesterday, I had coffee…
> Am I ever glad that Annette Ludwig has taken over as Director of the Gutenberg Museum! Talk about a breath of fresh air!Talk about innovation!Talk about getting information published…
> Impoverished? Depressed? Wife spent all your money on clothes? Can’t scrape €1000 together for a Nikon AF G DX 10,5/2,8? Thinking of giving it all away ?WAIT!DON’T DESPAIR! HELP…
OK. So I followed up on the sculptures in front of the Gutenberg Museum and actually got a response from one of the academic staff. We now know that the…
This would appear to be the Moguntian equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Take your favourite book and squish it in the wet concrete. Keeps your hands from…
Mainz Daily Photo 