{"id":8655,"date":"2017-07-17T22:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2017-07-17T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:24:23","slug":"berlins-deutches-historisches-history-of-germany-museum-some-very-cool-works-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8655","title":{"rendered":"Berlin’s Deutches Historisches – History of Germany Museum – some very cool works there"},"content":{"rendered":"

I personally found the Deutches Historisches Museum quite fascinating and it is well designed in timeline order so that it is relatively easy to get a reasonable grasp of Germany’s history, albeit from a German point of view.<\/p>\n

Here are just a few of the displays I found particularly interesting.<\/p>\n

These were all shot with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 II Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> with Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 pro lens<\/a>, mostly at around 1\/8th sec handheld with full frame equivalent focal lengths around 200mm!<\/p>\n

17th century plague mask for doctors to hopefully protect them from catching the dreaded disease by placing herbs or sponges soaked with vinegar in the beak – I am guessing it didn’t stop the infection but it might have made the smell of rotting corpses easier to bear:<\/p>\n

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family by Louis Carmontelle, 1770:<\/p>\n

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Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) by Balthasar Denner, 1733:<\/p>\n

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Karl Gottlieb Luck’s porcelain work Zwietracht in der Ehe<\/em> (Discord in Marriage) 1775 – beware the German woman scorned – domestic violence has a long history indeed!<\/p>\n

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The Battle of Trafalgar<\/em> 1805 by William Miller in 1839:<\/p>\n

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\nThe morning after the Battle of Waterloo<\/em> by John Heaviside Clark in 1816 who had created his sketches on site at the battle field which formed the basis for this haunting painting – but it seems we never learn from wars:<\/p>\n

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Ludwig Knaus’ Der Unzufriedene (The Malcontents or The Social Democrat), 1877 – shows a brooding visitor in an inn. On the wall is a handbill from the 1877 parliamentary elections. The newspapers are social democratic ones.<\/p>\n

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AEG’s electric light advertisement 1888:<\/p>\n

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Josef Rolletschek’s Die Vertriebenen (The Displaced) 1889:<\/p>\n

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Germania<\/em>, an image by Friedrich August von Kaulbach in 1914 which embodies Germany’s readiness to fight: <\/p>\n

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I personally found the Deutches Historisches Museum quite fascinating and it is well designed in timeline order so that it is relatively easy to get a reasonable grasp of Germany’s history, albeit from a German point of view. Here are just a few of the displays I found particularly interesting. These were all shot with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[502,461,462,349,168],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-history","tag-museum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t