Glass balls, wooden angels, Tinsel and gingerbread – the Germans hang on your Christmas tree. An exhibition in Berlin, Christmas tree jewelry displays from three centuries. But not always, he was so harmless.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
No Christmas without a Christmas tree
Family pure idyll: The decorated Christmas tree in a painting by the Dutch / German painter Eduard Geselschap. Also Poets and writers such as Jean Paul or E. T. A. Hoffmann describe in their narratives, the cheerful children drive around the beautifully decorated tree. The first Christmas trees were still unlit. Only later, the glowing candles were added.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
From the pastries to the glass jewelry
Christmas tree decorations has a long Tradition. Before the 19th century. Century Apples, Baked, nuts and candy canes hanged on the tree, it was later shiny balls and glass jewelry. Here is the famous dome of the rock from Jerusalem, the motif is. This filigree designed glass body is from the year 2018. Unlike before, he is no longer made by Hand, but industrial.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Mini-tree in the field post
During the First world war, the motives for the Christmas decorations have changed. Instead of colorful balls and cute little angel balls hung in the Form of bombs and grenades on the tree. Also war ships and planes were not allowed to be missing. Traditionally, this tree was sent by field post 1914 to the Front is adorned.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Capture by the Nazis
The Germans love their Christmas tree. The have made the Nazis take advantage of, such as this poster for the Hitler youth from 1939. During the time of national socialism there were also Christmas tree decoration, where Nazi symbols like the swastika were painted on. It is, however, no photo of the actual use of Nazi symbols used as Tree ornaments.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Cultural traditions merge
In the jewelry so many Christmas trees in the German offices, the whole world is reflected. In addition to angels from the Erzgebirge, or heavy fir costume or art figures from Russia find pin Christmas men with Chinese Beard. Cultural traditions merge, as in this Installation by Ulrich Vogl and Evi again man, called “Christmas tension”.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
No Christmas without a Christmas tree
Family pure idyll: The decorated Christmas tree in a painting by the Dutch / German painter Eduard Geselschap. Also Poets and writers such as Jean Paul or E. T. A. Hoffmann describe in their narratives, the cheerful children drive around the beautifully decorated tree. The first Christmas trees were still unlit. Only later, the glowing candles were added.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
From the pastries to the glass jewelry
Christmas tree decorations has a long Tradition. Before the 19th century. Century Apples, Baked, nuts and candy canes hanged on the tree, it was later shiny balls and glass jewelry. Here is the famous dome of the rock from Jerusalem, the motif is. This filigree designed glass body is from the year 2018. Unlike before, he is no longer made by Hand, but industrial.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Mini-tree in the field post
During the First world war, the motives for the Christmas decorations have changed. Instead of colorful balls and cute little angel balls hung in the Form of bombs and grenades on the tree. Also war ships and planes were not allowed to be missing. Traditionally, this tree was sent by field post 1914 to the Front is adorned.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Capture by the Nazis
The Germans love their Christmas tree. The have made the Nazis take advantage of, such as this poster for the Hitler youth from 1939. During the time of national socialism there were also Christmas tree decoration, where Nazi symbols like the swastika were painted on. It is, however, no photo of the actual use of Nazi symbols used as Tree ornaments.
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Christmas tree ornaments from three centuries
Cultural traditions merge
In the jewelry so many Christmas trees in the German offices, the whole world is reflected. In addition to angels from the Erzgebirge, or heavy fir costume or art figures from Russia find pin Christmas men with Chinese Beard. Cultural traditions merge, as in this Installation by Ulrich Vogl and Evi again man, called “Christmas tension”.
At the German Historical Museum most of the thinking of Imperial, kings and other important historical figures. Little is known, that the Berlin Museum has an extensive collection of Christmas tree decorations.
Christmas tree balls with the political explosiveness
What people know as a beautiful and evocative objects of the everyday life, culture and love, gets in the exhibition “angels, hook, cross, dome of the rock – Christmas tree ornaments from the 19th century. Century until today,” all of a sudden a completely new relevance, and Yes, sometimes even political sensitivity. For Christmas tree decorations is far more than just decoration.
Nazi symbols as Christmas tree decorations
More than 500 objects presents the exhibition from the 30. November to 3. March 2019. They tell very different stories. The hand-carved wooden angels from the Erzgebirge reports of the genuine Idyll, the shiny Christmas tree balls velvet Tinsel from the commercialization of the holidays, swastikas and other Nazi insignia of the political collection of the Christmas family feast.
Apples, nuts, and pretzels
The origins of the decorated tree were modest and by no means is Christian dominated. Evergreen sprigs for midwinter time adorned in Europe on the country house and the yard as a protection and a sign of hope. In the 17th century. and 18. Century, the nobility took a tree into the house, decorated with Edibles such as Apples, nuts, and pretzels in Basel even with cheese. Increasingly, the Christmas tree is captured offices with serially-produced glass jewellery as well as the middle-class housing, while the poorer sections of the population, set up a decorated frame made of wood or wire.
Nowadays, the decorated tree is widely used to decorate the selection of ways to do it immensely: be it modern, traditional or simply just colorful.