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…
Translation as (pdf) here ….in the summer (if you can call it that…) of the Year MMXI that the renowned bird scribess Cibus Mercator of the Moguntiae Genera Papyrus did…
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…
If things work out, I’m meeting Karl-Heinz Krause and his wife Ursula at precisely….NOW… to learn the history, concept and technique of the 4 bronze gates of the Gutenberg…
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…
Or sculpture. The interest in yesterday’s post incented me to rock into the Big Smoke this am and do some research. Results: 1. They’re not concrete (for those who…
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…
