Five centuries of German and Austrian graphics on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
View of the exhibition GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley.
MONTREAL
.- For the first time, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is focusing an exhibition on the sweep of stylistic and cultural developments articulated in printmaking in Germany and Austria from the early history of the medium in the mid-15th century to modern times. GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics presents about 90 works, including several remarkable works on paper, that embrace over 550 years of Germanic creativity. Several of these works on paper have never previously been exhibited, while others have not been shown for some years. Highly important recent Museum acquisitions from all periods are also included.
Johannes Gutenberg: Google Doodle honours printing press pioneer
The Gutenberg Museum launched a retrospective exhibition in his honour on 14 April 2000.
German inventor Johannes Gutenberg revolutionised the publishing industry by introducing movable-type printing to Europe in 1439. Today, Google Doodle honoured Gutenberg, 553 years after his death.
“When it comes to first impressions, no other historical figure made one quite like the inventor of the mechanical movable type printing press: German craftsman Johannes Gutenberg”.
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Johannes Gutenberg: What you need to know
Google explains that Gutenberg’s “revolutionary technology made the knowledge found in books both affordable and accessible to the common person for the first time in history”.
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The Gutenberg Bible in its new case. Photograph by Shawn Miller, via the Library of Congress Life Flickr page.
Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable metal-type printing to Europe, thus beginning that continent’s era of mass communication.
And one of only three perfect vellum copies of his Bible is here in Washington.
German craftsman & inventor Johannes Gutenberg forever left his imprint on the world
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The Library of Congress purchased its copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was owned for five centuries by Benedictine monks, thanks to an act of Congress in 1930. In non-pandemic times, the Bible is usually on display in the Great Hall of the LOC’s Jefferson Building. (The Library of Congress is currently closed due to Covid concerns.) In 2018 the Library installed a new dis
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Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to
Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling the park at regular intervals as well as parked along the lake’s north end.