Travel
Holiday in space and on earth: We are looking for the Wide
Just get away! As far as possible! So it goes when traveling, now claims an exhibition in the kupferstichkabinett Berlin. And finds even more reasons why it draws us into the distance.
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The age of discovery
The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, a Sightseeing pioneer, thought it was hardly at home. In 1494, he traveled for the first time to Italy. Since the main route in the Alps, probably due to the high water impassable, he had to take the arduous path through the Val di Cembra in the Italian province of Trentino. There he discovered the castle of Segonzano, which he held as a watercolor.
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Hiking tourism on the Dürer-Weg
Through the landscape, the Dürer-inspired to his castle-image, the path leads today the Dürer -. It connects St. Florian in South Tyrol with Segonzano in the Trentino. On the 40-kilometre-long Hiking trail through the forests and mountains up to the tower and cone-shaped earth pyramids in the Cembra valley. There is also the castle of Segonzano is located – a romantic ruin, surrounded by fruit trees and vineyards.
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The beginnings of the educational journey
In artistic circles, it was since the late middle ages, common for ancient sites to visit in Italy. The Dutchman Marten van Heemskerck, for example, under the trip took between 1532 and 1536/37 to Rome. In sketches, which are on view in the exhibition, he tightly held on to the just-discovered ancient statues and temples, but also the construction of the new St. Peter’s Basilica.
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“Grand Tour” to Italy
Until today, Italy is one of the most popular destinations in Europe. The Foundation for the modern mass tourism grew in the 17th century. Century English aristocrats, who sent their children on an educational trip to Italy. A Canon of the attractions was outstanding. Among the objectives of the “Grand Tour” of the famous cities such as Florence and the ancient monuments such as the Forum Romanum in Rome.
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The dream of a South seas Paradise
As the French painter Paul Gauguin traveled in 1891, civilization tired to Tahiti, he met an impoverished, through colonization, broken population. The dream of Paradise was shattered. His pictures of the South seas like this are pure fiction: with beautiful women, the old gods and worship statues. Nevertheless, his work shapes since then, the notions of a South seas traveler.
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Break in the distance
Needed 100 years ago, a trip with the ship to Tahiti for months, is French Polynesia today, only one to two flight days from Europe. The South sea is, despite the fragile Ecosystem in the 21st century. Century remained unchanged, a place of longing, in the meantime, a flat rate book. Long-distance travel even 2016 are more in Trend.
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The journey is the destination
To look into the Distance and to come even close to, sometimes even a view from the top of the world – such as from the 3776-Meter-high Mount Fuji, the sacred mountain of Japan. Already in 1901, has mixed the graphic artist Emil Orlik as drawing observers among the throngs of pilgrims who hasten to the summit of the dawn. The pilgrimage is considered to be one of the oldest travel motives.
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So close to heaven
The Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan and is revered for centuries as sacred. Today, a tour to the summit, however, is less of a spiritual experience rather than sweaty mass event. Every summer Hiking daily up to 3,000 visitors to the Plateau to experience the sunrise. Since 2013, the Fuji is a UNESCO world heritage site.
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Journey into the Unknown
Glaciers, or even other Planet? With ever-faster vehicles in the infinite Vastness to penetrate – is that correct? You can read the exhibition image of the Berlin-based artist Kai Schiemenz with the military, small airplanes, as a tourism critique. Because of the desire to always want to conquer new territories, is as old as mankind. And even in the 21st century. A century is not to stop.
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Tourist in space
Even from space on our planet, a dream that could be fulfilled for the tourists to look. The space company by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, will be transported from 2018, several times a year tourists into space. Competitor SpaceX has begun the sale of tickets for its space flights even. The end of the search after the infinite Expanses of the will not be.
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The age of discovery
The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, a Sightseeing pioneer, thought it was hardly at home. In 1494, he traveled for the first time to Italy. Since the main route in the Alps, probably due to the high water impassable, he had to take the arduous path through the Val di Cembra in the Italian province of Trentino. There he discovered the castle of Segonzano, which he held as a watercolor.
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Hiking tourism on the Dürer-Weg
Through the landscape, the Dürer-inspired to his castle-image, the path leads today the Dürer -. It connects St. Florian in South Tyrol with Segonzano in the Trentino. On the 40-kilometre-long Hiking trail through the forests and mountains up to the tower and cone-shaped earth pyramids in the Cembra valley. There is also the castle of Segonzano is located – a romantic ruin, surrounded by fruit trees and vineyards.
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The beginnings of the educational journey
In artistic circles, it was since the late middle ages, common for ancient sites to visit in Italy. The Dutchman Marten van Heemskerck, for example, under the trip took between 1532 and 1536/37 to Rome. In sketches, which are on view in the exhibition, he tightly held on to the just-discovered ancient statues and temples, but also the construction of the new St. Peter’s Basilica.
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“Grand Tour” to Italy
Until today, Italy is one of the most popular destinations in Europe. The Foundation for the modern mass tourism grew in the 17th century. Century English aristocrats, who sent their children on an educational trip to Italy. A Canon of the attractions was outstanding. Among the objectives of the “Grand Tour” of the famous cities such as Florence and the ancient monuments such as the Forum Romanum in Rome.
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The dream of a South seas Paradise
As the French painter Paul Gauguin traveled in 1891, civilization tired to Tahiti, he met an impoverished, through colonization, broken population. The dream of Paradise was shattered. His pictures of the South seas like this are pure fiction: with beautiful women, the old gods and worship statues. Nevertheless, his work shapes since then, the notions of a South seas traveler.
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Break in the distance
Needed 100 years ago, a trip with the ship to Tahiti for months, is French Polynesia today, only one to two flight days from Europe. The South sea is, despite the fragile Ecosystem in the 21st century. Century remained unchanged, a place of longing, in the meantime, a flat rate book. Long-distance travel even 2016 are more in Trend.
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The journey is the destination
To look into the Distance and to come even close to, sometimes even a view from the top of the world – such as from the 3776-Meter-high Mount Fuji, the sacred mountain of Japan. Already in 1901, has mixed the graphic artist Emil Orlik as drawing observers among the throngs of pilgrims who hasten to the summit of the dawn. The pilgrimage is considered to be one of the oldest travel motives.
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So close to heaven
The Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan and is revered for centuries as sacred. Today, a tour to the summit, however, is less of a spiritual experience rather than sweaty mass event. Every summer Hiking daily up to 3,000 visitors to the Plateau to experience the sunrise. Since 2013, the Fuji is a UNESCO world heritage site.
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Journey into the Unknown
Glaciers, or even other Planet? With ever-faster vehicles in the infinite Vastness to penetrate – is that correct? You can read the exhibition image of the Berlin-based artist Kai Schiemenz with the military, small airplanes, as a tourism critique. Because of the desire to always want to conquer new territories, is as old as mankind. And even in the 21st century. A century is not to stop.
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Tourist in space
Even from space on our planet, a dream that could be fulfilled for the tourists to look. The space company by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, will be transported from 2018, several times a year tourists into space. Competitor SpaceX has begun the sale of tickets for its space flights even. The end of the search after the infinite Expanses of the will not be.
The National museums in Berlin will show the exhibition
“We are looking into the Distance” from 18.03. to 25.09.2016 in the Kupferstichkabinett at the Kulturforum in Berlin. It presents around 100 works of various artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Paul Gauguin, or Olafur Eliasson. The images span from the expeditions of Alexander von Humboldt to the present, and shed light on 500 years of travel history(n) in the visual arts.
We compare some of the works with today’s views of the landscapes that inspired the artist.