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"Skoro damoi!" Hope and despair
Starting in January 1945, large numbers of Transylvanian Saxons were deported to the Soviet Union to do forced labor. The exhibition showcases personal objects, photographs and documents that shed light on this central chapter of the recent history of Transylvanian Saxons.
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Art Forum East German Gallery ("Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie")
The Art Forum East German Gallery (KOG) is an art museum with an outstanding collection ranging from Romanticism to Modernism and a unique focus on art creation in Eastern Europe. Here you can discover paintings, sculptures and graphic art by German artists who lived and worked in the region...
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Collections and holdings of the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie
With its collection and in-house art library, including an artists’ archive, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (KOG) pursues a unique mission within Germany: to preserve, communicate and research the artistic heritage of the formerly German-influenced areas in Central, Eastern and Southeastern...
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Documents and Materials relating to East Central Europe
Digital sources relating to the history of East Central Europe in open access. The online edition of "Documents and Materials on the History of East Central Europe" of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe presents materials and sources on selected topics related to the...
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Fernweh ("Yearning for afar")
In the exhibition "Fernweh" ("Yearning for Afar") you can let your imagination take wing and transport you to far-off places. Here you will discover sun, beaches and the ocean, but also unknown and mysterious landscapes. As the subtitle “From Jugendstil to contemporary photography” promises,...
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Editing project
Gedichte und Briefe aus der Verbannung (“Poems and Letters from Exile”)
In this edition project, all the poems Wolf von Aichelburg wrote in exile will be collected, along with precise details of how they were recorded and passed down, and accompanied, where appropriate, by the author's own statements or other contextualizing information.
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Permanent exhibition of the Siebenbürgisches Museum (Transylvanian Museum)
The permanent exhibition of the Siebenbürgisches Museum (Transylvanian Museum) presents the more than 900-year-old culture and history of the Transylvanian Saxons in the context of their multi-ethnic and multi-religious surroundings. Seven exemplary thematic areas convey key aspects of the cultural...
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Provenance research project
Project on Provenance Research
Just like people, works of art also have a kind of biography. Reconstructing these stories of origin is the task of provenance research. The Art Forum East German Gallery has been running a project for this since December 2018. The aim is to examine where the works were located before they entered...
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Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa
The BKGE's publication series is aimed both at the specialist scientific community and at a scientifically interested public.
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Transylvanian Artists in Europe. Lives, Journeys and Landscapes
This exhibition presents paintings and artworks by Transylvanian artists from the 19th century to the present. All the pieces on display are from the holdings of the Transylvanian Museum. The lives and works of the artists and artists are placed in a European context and the paintings and artworks...
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Woher kommen wir, wohin gehen wir? ("Where do we come from, where are we going?")
This permanent exhibition invites visitors to take part on a journey through 200 years of art and cultural history in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The exhibited works of art lead visitors through scenes of important historical events to important centers of art as well as to fictitious...
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reisen. entdecken. sammeln. ("travel. discover. collect.")
Travel. Discover. Collect. These three words encapsulate the motivation behind Hans-Peter Riese’s collection, which brings together art from Eastern and Western Europe. A central focus of the the exhibition is concrete art from the former Czechoslovakia, dating from 1960s until the 1980s, while...