When they packed up their displays at the end of this month’s Leipzig trade fair, most East German companies found themselves with virtually empty order books. One state-owned company had an ...

Much has changed since Brigham Young told Karl G. Maeser to go to Provo and found Brigham Young University (then Academy). But nearly 150 years later, one connection to the German transplant is seeing ...

One look lengthwise in a sun-speckled upper room is all it takes to see a spectrum of ideas at play in Gerhards & Gl'cker's exhibit pieces for the Saxon castle of Albrechtsburg, in eastern Germany.

Work by Chris Antemann at the Meissen Manufactory (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) MEISSEN, Germany — Of his extensive collection of ceramics, Oscar Wilde once remarked: “I find it harder ...

Deciphering the secret recipe for porcelain would be a difficult enough task without the added pressure of an impatient king breathing down your neck. But that was the predicament physicist Ehrenfried ...

MEISSEN, Germany (Reuters) - For some in Meissen the caskets piling up in the eastern German city's sole crematorium are a tragic reminder of what happens when the coronavirus is not taken seriously.

MEISSEN, Germany (Reuters) - After 300 years crafting baroque porcelain for French kings and Russian tsars, Germany's Meissen has launched an in-house revolution to weather the economic downturn.

Samantha enjoys Bach in Leipzig, tours a porcelain factory in Meissen and explores Berlin's history. Inside St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Samantha enjoys a concert on the pipe organ, celebrating ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. (DATA SOURCE: National Museum of ...