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Die Pflanzenfotografien Karl Blossfeldts (1865-1932) sind heute weltberühmt. Unbekannt hingegen ist, dass ihre Entstehung einen Teil der Geschichte des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums bildet: Nicht als freie Kunstfotografien fertigte Blossfeldt seine Aufnahmen, sondern als Elemente einer Lehrmittelsammlung. Mit dieser rückte Moritz Meurer (1839-1916) in den 1890er Jahren das Pflanzenstudium an der dem Museum angeschlossenen Kunstgewerbeschule in den Fokus. Anhand von Modellen, Herbarien, Lehrtafeln und Fotografien sollten die Gesetze natürlicher Formbildung durchdrungen und die Gestaltungslehre erneuert werden. Katalog und Ausstellung führen die Lehrmittel erstmals als Ensemble zusammen und...
Examines the connections between the emergence of Weimar photographic books and modern conceptions of photographic meaning
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Martin Luther is often thought of as a world-shaking figure who defied papacy and empire to introduce a reformation in the teaching, worship, organization, and life of the Church. Sometimes it is forgotten that he was also a pastor and shepherd of souls. Collected in this volume are Luther's letters of spiritual counsel, which he offered to his contemporaries in the midst of sickness, death, persecution, imprisonment, famine, and political instability. For Luther, spiritual counsel was about establishing, nurturing, and strengthening faith. Freshly translated from the original German and Latin, the letters shed light on the fascinating relationship between his pastoral counsel and his theology. Theodore G. Tappert taught Church History at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also translated Pia Desideria by Philip Jacob Spener and The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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