Tag: Vahland
By SZ authors: Kia Vahland about Caspar David Friedrich – Culture
If you want to expand your horizons, you have to know your own point of view. For Caspar David Friedrich, both apply: world and self-experience complement each other in his…
Kia Vahland on the relevance of famous paintings – culture
Great art reacts to its time – but not only. It deals with fundamental questions that concern people in all eras. Kia Vahland, art critic and SZ editor in the…
Kia Vahland about Wörlitz – culture
History becomes a gimmick here, enlightenment becomes relaxation, science becomes a promise: the Garden Kingdom of Wörlitz-Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt is a utopia that has become a park with miniature architecture,…
By SZ authors: Kia Vahland on Caravaggio and Velázquez – culture
In the Baroque era, scientific progress collided with religion, climate change during the Little Ice Age and the Thirty Years’ War of the Denominations shook Europe, global trade revolutionized the…