Germany's Medieval Heartland

Proud cathedrals and small country churches, defiant castles and peaceful monasteries – they all bear witness to the deep-rooted fear of God, yet also to the most mysterious eras in history: the medieval …

Passion Play 2010: Tickets for Sale

A play of life and death, promised in a moment of mortal threat - so began the history of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1633. In the middle of the Thirty Years War, after months of suffering and death …

High Speed Mobility with ICE Trains

Germany certainly has not become smaller but distances between cities are shrinking fast – at least if you take the train. Due to extensive investments in railroads and tracks, new ICEs connect German Cities with a travel speed of up to 160 mph. With the German Rail Pass, the ICE offers high speed mobility at a very competitive price …

Historic Lodging

Muenster. Tipped off by a European Union investment scheme, 14 castles, monasteries and manor houses in North Rhine Westphalia have started to run Bed & Breakfast services – providing both, remarkable historical authenticity and a high grade accommodation.
Hotel-turned-castles include, amongst others, Schloss Diersfordt (built 1432), 14th century country house Hertefeld or Schloss Ossenberg with its unique Rococo style architecture. Vacancies can be checked by online booking requests…

Munich. – The Lenbachhaus Munich, the New York Guggenheim Museum, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris are the three museums worldwide that hold the largest collections of works by Wassily Kandinsky. Together these three museums are planning a large joint show on this outstanding modernist artist and founder of abstract painting from October 25, 2008 to February 22, 2009.

Absolute. Abstract. Retrospective 2008/2010

The large and ambitious retrospective will include c. 90 paintings from all the important periods of Kandinsky’s oeuvre, with the collections of the three participating museums complementing each other perfectly.
In addition to an ideal selection of the best works from these three collections, the exhibition will also include magnificent loans from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, the New York Metropolitan Museum, Pasadena, Utica, the Fondation Beyerle Collection in Basel, K20 Düsseldorf, and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, presenting Kandinsky’s series of large-format “Impressions,“ “Improvisations,” and “Compositions” as extensively as possible.
This collaboration between the world’s three largest Kandinsky collections—which have never been brought together on such a large scale—will offer a unique chance to experience the artist’s work more directly and intensively than ever before, and also represent a hitherto unprecedented opportunity for international cooperation between major museums.