Heidelberg Castle Revisited

Computer Simulation Reconstructs Heidelberg Castle

Strikes of lightning, fires, wars – not only ravages of time left their traces on Heidelberg Castle. Today, it is considered one of the most important renaissance buildings north of the Alps. And it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Germany with about 1.1 million visitors from all over the world every year – many of them from English speaking countries and Asia. Now, a researcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (just 60 Kilometers away from the castle)  has reconstructed the castle as it looked before its destruction by means of a three-dimensional virtual model.

Some people say that the enchanted building on a hill above the historic old town of Heidelberg is the best-known castle ruin in the world. Martin Luther, the reformer who came to Heidelberg to defend his theses, praised the beauty of the impressive fortress. Later, after its destruction by troops of French sun king Louis XIV, the ruin became the epitome of German romanticism.

art KARLSRUHE 2017

Honouring the work of gallerists and artists rather than regarding artworks as mere investment items

art KARLSRUHE will kick off the season of art fairs from 16 to 19 February 2017. A total of 211 galleries from eleven nations will present works by renowned German and foreign artists in the halls of Karlsruhe’s trade fair. Punctually in time for the show, the art KARLSRUHE catalogue is now available: all participating galleries and artists are included among its 672 pages.

An especially “art-full” success story

Established in accord with a unique concept in 2004, art KARLSRUHE has borne new fruits each year and written an ongoing success story.

This dialectical presentation of Classical Modern and Contemporary art annually attracts some 50,000 visitors to the halls of Karlsruhe’s trade fair. Interest among gallerists likewise remains unabatedly high: some 300 galleries applied for stands at this year’s fair. The seven jurors on the art KARLSRUHE advisory council decided to limit the participants to circa 200 galleries – because each artwork by the 1,518 exhibiting artists must be given an opportunity to fully reveal its qualities and to be perceived clearly.

Discover. Love. Collect.

art KARLSRUHE 2017: advisory board has selected 210 galleries from 12 countries

Numerous one-artist shows, spacious sculpture areas and exclusive special exhibitions: with its hallmarks, art KARLSRUHE – International Fair for Classical Modern and Contemporary Art has been an ongoing success story. Under the slogan “Discover. Love. Collect.”, 210 galleries from 12 countries will be invited to present artworks at the Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre from 16 to 19 February 2017. In addition to these exhibitors, 19 sculpture areas will create spatial situations and invite visitors to tarry.

art KARLSRUHE’s advisory board will assign the limited number of booths at the trade fair to German and international galleries, which include well-known exhibitors from past art KARLSRUHE fairs, e.g. DIE GALERIE GmbH (Frankfurt am Main), Gilden’s Arts (London) and Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo (Barcelona) as well as numerous newcomers such as Bernheimer Contemporary (Berlin), Tobias Naehring (Leipzig), island6 (Shanghai, China) and Galerie Springer (Berlin). The fair presents a broad spectrum of high-quality artworks in genres ranging from Classical Modern to Contemporary Art.

Karlsruher Film in Hollywood

„Toni Erdmann“ will begehrten Auslands-Oscar

Die SWR Koproduktion „Toni Erdmann" wird in diesem Jahr das deutsche Kino bei der Entscheidung für den Auslands-Oscar vertreten. Das gab die Auslandsvertretung des Deutschen Films, German Films, im August 2016 bekannt. Eine unabhängige Jury wählte unter acht Einreichungen den Film der gebürtigen Karlsruherin Maren Ade aus, der nun bei der Oscar-Verleihung im kommenden Jahr den begehrten Preis für den besten nicht-englischsprachigen, abendfüllenden Kinofilm nach Deutschland holen könnte.

Ade überzeugt German-Films-Jury: „Toni Erdmann“ habe unter den acht Bewerbern „durch seine konsequente künstlerische Handschrift“ und „eine ebenso mutige wie stilsichere filmische Seelenschau am Puls der Zeit überzeugt“, schrieb die Jury. Maren Ade schaffe es, „162 Minuten Film zu einem humorvoll-entlarvenden Spaziergang durch die Nuancen einer Vater-Tochter-Beziehung werden zu lassen. Universelle Themen wie soziale Isolation und die Herausforderung zwischenmenschlicher Wahrhaftigkeit werden gekonnt seziert. Anrührend, aufrüttelnd, gesellschaftliche Fragezeichen implementierend und von unbeirrbarer gestalterischer Klarheit. So muss modernes, internationales Kino sein!", begründete die neunköpfige Jury ihre Entscheidung.