Word: schleswig
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another period of German culture is represented in the groups and statuettes elaborately carved in wood, from Bruggemann's altarpiece in the Cathedral of Schleswig, dating from the sixteenth century. Another good illustration of this class of sculpture is the elaborately carved doorway from the Hirschvogelsaal in Nuremberg which was presented to the Museum by the Deutscher Verein. Among other notable specimens in the exhibition may be mentioned a choirscreen from St. Michael's church, Hildesheim, twelfth century, presented to the Museum by Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston; baptismal font from the Cathedral at Hildesheim, twelfth century; model...
Professor Francke has also purchased various reproductions of famous German statues, and, as representative of North German art, fac-similes of three of the reliefs from the great altar of the Schleswig Cathedral, by Brueggemann-the "Ecce Homo," the "Establishment of the Passover," and the "Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedec...
Professor Francke has been traveling in Switzerland, stopping for some time at Berne. He is at present in Germany, and plans to make a considerable stay in Berlin and in Flensburg, his native town in Schleswig--Holstein. He is rewriting in German his "History of German Literature," and is also selecting specimens for the Harvard Germanic Museum...