22 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
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Wassily Kandinsky in 1922 by Hugo Erfurth
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of
abstract art . Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in
Odessa (today Ukraine), where he graduated at
Grekov Odessa Art school . He enrolled at the
University of Moscow , studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of
Roman Law ) at the
University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia)—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
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21 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Danube and Visegrad Castle © Civertan Grafikai Studio/cc-by-3.0
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Visegrád is a small
castle town in
Pest County ,
Hungary . It is north of
Budapest on the right bank of the
Danube in the
Danube Bend . It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. Visegrád is famous for the remains of the Early Renaissance summer
palace of King
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and the medieval
citadel . In 1991, the leading politicians of
Hungary ,
Czechoslovakia , and
Poland met here to form a periodical forum, the
Visegrád Group , with an intentional allusion to the meeting centuries earlier in 1335. Visegrád was granted
town privileges again in 2000.
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21 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Rubric: General
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Aerial view © flickr.com – Craig/cc-by-sa-2.0
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The
Auckland central business district (CBD), also called the
city centre by
Auckland Council , is the geographical and economic heart of the
Auckland metropolitan area . It is the area in which Auckland was established in 1840, by
William Hobson . It is New Zealand’s leading financial hub, and the centre of the
country’s economy ; the GDP of the
Auckland Region was $122.557 billion in the year ending March 2020. The CBD is one of the most densely developed places in New Zealand, with many commercial and some residential developments packed into a space of only 433 hectares (1,070 acres). The area is made up of the city’s largest concentration of skyscrapers and businesses. Bounded by several major motorways and by the harbour coastline in the north, it is surrounded further out by mostly
suburban areas; it is bounded on the North by
Waitematā Harbour , east by
Parnell , southeast by
Grafton , south by
Mount Eden , southwest by
Newton , west by
Freemans Bay and northwest by
Viaduct Harbour .
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20 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Theme Weeks , UNESCO World Heritage
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View from Gellert Hill to the Danube in Budapest © flickr.com – Visions of Domino/cc-by-2.0
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Hungary is a country in
Central Europe . Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) of the
Carpathian Basin , it is bordered by
Slovakia to the north,
Ukraine to the northeast,
Romania to the east and southeast,
Serbia to the south,
Croatia and
Slovenia to the southwest, and
Austria to the west. Hungary is a
landlocked country . Hungary has a population of 10 million, mostly
ethnic Hungarians and a significant
Romani minority .
Hungarian , the
official language , is the world’s most widely spoken
Uralic language , and among the few non-
Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe.
Budapest is the country’s capital and
largest city ; other major urban areas include
Debrecen ,
Szeged ,
Miskolc ,
Pécs , and
Győr .
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20 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks , UNESCO World Heritage
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Kaisersaal © Andreas Faessler/cc-by-sa-4.0
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The Würzburg Residence (German: Würzburger Residenz) is a
palace in
Würzburg ,
Germany .
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and
Maximilian von Welsch , representatives of the Austrian/South German Baroque style, were involved in the construction, as well as
Robert de Cotte and
Germain Boffrand , who were followers of the French Style.
Balthasar Neumann , court architect of the
Bishop of Würzburg , was the principal architect of the Residence, which was commissioned by the
Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn and his brother
Friedrich Carl von Schönborn in 1720, and completed in 1744. The Venetian painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , assisted by his son,
Domenico , painted frescoes in the building. Interiors considered masterworks of Baroque/Rococo or Neoclassical architecture and art include the grand staircase, the chapel, and the Imperial Hall. The building was reportedly called the “largest parsonage in Europe” by
Napoleon . It was heavily damaged by Allied bombing during
World War II , and restoration has been in progress since 1945.
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17 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Rubric: General
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Oyster farming © Olga Ernst/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Walvis Bay is a city in
Namibia and the name of the
bay on which it lies. It is the
second largest city in Namibia and the largest coastal city in the country. The city covers a total area of 29 square kilometres (11 sq mi) of land.
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15 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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© Solomonn Levi/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Taormina is a
comune (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Messina , on the east coast of the island of
Sicily ,
Italy . Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on the
Ionian Sea , including that of
Isola Bella , are accessible via an
aerial tramway built in 1992, and via highways from
Messina in the north and
Catania in the south. On 26–27 May 2017 Taormina hosted the
43rd G7 summit .
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13 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Riverside and Avondale © Ebyabe/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Jacksonville is the most populous city in
Florida , and is the
largest city by area in the
contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the
seat of
Duval County , with which the city government
consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. As of
2020 , Jacksonville’s population is 949,611, making it the
12th most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in the
Southeast , and the most populous city in the
South outside of the state of
Texas . The
Jacksonville metropolitan area has a
population of 1,523,615 and
is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Florida .
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11 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City
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© 9/11 Memorial and Museum
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated
terrorist attacks by the
Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group
Al-Qaeda against the
United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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