Castles in our minds are often associated with fairy tales, with the romantic love of princesses and princes. In the world, ...

In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.

Yes, Esben Weile Kjær is 6’5” with blue eyes, but he’s a man in fine art rather than finance—and the world is better off for ...

We’ll never know about all the paintings destroyed or stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Were there forgotten Vermeers?

Some of the most famous mosaic murals in California, Disneyland and Disney World are the work of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, a ...

He grew up with a toy castle and wondered as an adult what would happen if he blew one up to a scale that he could walk through. He found a photo of his old toy and started designing. But the castle ...

Peter identified sources of frustration and indignity that might bother virtually any German: how one navigates banking, ...

Also in Lismore, in the castle’s sister space at St Carthage Hall, Marathon Dance Relief, by the German artist Nicole Wermers, is a sculpted bas-relief frieze, mounted on a line of upturned bar ...

Hitler was starting to make good on his threats.At 5 p.m., the French museums received a message they knew would come: start packing.To Rose Valland, a forty-five-year-old French art curator at the ...

It's not for nothing that Ferdinand was known as the Artist-King. Gorgeous Neuschwanstein Castle crowns a rocky ledge overlooking a plunging gorge in Germany’s stunning Bavarian Alps. It was the fever ...

He engaged a New York architect and planned 2 buildings in the style of English or German baronial halls ... Renovations in 1995 included painting the ground floor of the castle with a waxed coating ...