HAP Grieshaber was a German artist best known for his large-format woodcuts. He developed a signature stylized aesthetic through his printmaking, rendering his subjects in more than three colors at a ...

The guided tour in German sign language through the "BerlinZEIT" exhibition provides interesting facts about the city's history. If you want to know why a quarter of Berlin's population actually came ...

Where do people actually buy art? At a gallery, for example, from an art dealer. Paul Cassirer was an art dealer in Berlin 100 years ago and mainly exhibited and sold Impressionist art. He loved this ...

In Berlin last week, Pastor Reinhold George, 40, had just finished conducting vesper services in the Marienkirche, a stately Evangelical church in the Russian sector. When he stepped outside the ...

The lithuanian archbishop Rolandas Cardinal Makrickas is the coadjutor of the Archpriest of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Makrickas helped Pope Francis choose the right place for his last resting ...

German officials recently announced the excavation of Marienkirche in Gardelegen, which yielded unusual artifacts including tweezers, hundreds of coins and a bronze monkey.

A medieval church yielded unusual artifacts during an archaeological excavation – and officials recently brought the discoveries to light. In a Jan. 31 press release, the State Office for Heritage ...

Whether for monetary gain or thrill alone, history’s art forgers have fabricated lost pieces, made exacting copies of originals, and imagined whole new visions in the style of famed creators. There ...

1705. It’s autumn in northern Germany. A young composer sets out from the city of Arnstadt to make the gruelling journey on foot to Lübeck, almost 400 km to the north. His reason? To hear some music ...

Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the north German city of Lübeck by the Royal Air Force. Some 400 tons of explosives fell in just under four hours; incendiary bombs created a ...

Editor's note: Portions of this column were recently published in a blog post on Patheos. The German town of Wittenberg is a sleepy, quaint little place with roughly 50,000 residents. But its small ...

Lothar Malskat was one of the foremost fakers of the 20th century, convincing the Nazi elite that his ersatz Medieval church murals were "the last, deepest, final word in German art" – and that the ...