Yesterday Red Baron was on his way to a rather academic lecture about:
Die karolingische Reform und der Bildtransfer aus der Spätantike in den
Norden – bis hin zum Adelhauser Tragaltar
(The Carolingian reform and the image transfer from Late Antiquity to the north
- up to the portable altar from Adelhausen).
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Käthe Kollwitz:
Never war again
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Walking downtown to the
Museumsgesellschaft,
I noticed a protest march turning from a side street into
Kaiser-Joseph-Straße. The people carried banners and black crosses with names
for regions presently devastated by war: Afghanistan, Iraq,
Israel, Libya, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
It was
a march commemorating the
International Day of Peace
that in Germany is traditionally held on September 1, the day when
the Third Reich started the Second World War 75 years ago by invading
Poland.
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Note the policeman marching along on the right, protecting the
demonstrators
against possible right-wing aggressors.
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Prof. Warland is power-pointing one of his objects. |
In his talk,
Prof. Warland showed
crosses too, but there were older and made from gold or gold plated. He explained
that Byzantine stylistic elements passing through Italy had been transferred to
Aachen, to Charlemagne's court.
Somehow one important object from the ninth
century, a portable altar, survived in Freiburg. An exhibition:
Unterwegs in der Zeit Karls des Großen (On the road during the times of
Charlemagne), will open in Freiburg on September 20 and show as highlight
the Adelhauser Tragaltar. Portable altars were part of the baggage of
high secular and church dignitaries and used as sacred places to celebrate the
Eucharist on the road.
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The Adelhauser Tragealtar (©Augustinermuseum/A. Kilian)
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