Wegener: Kramer's Welt-Bar

The penny bank craze of the twentieth century began quietly enough. Here, a slotted pottery pig from Scotland. There, a grimacing human face made in Bennington, Vermont. In 1793, penny banks first appeared in America, along with the first large copper pennies. Those who mistrusted paper currency saved their “hard” ...more

The new building for the Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar und Meeresforschung, named after Alfred Wegener, the famous geo-scientific pioneer, is near the city centre by the commercial harbor, not far from warehouses and other industrial buildings. What is striking is the unusual facade: a pattern is made with glazed tiles in ...more

This collection of projects, texts, and visual essays by contemporary artists and authors questions how the individual's experience creates a new and changing understanding of place. Participants include Matthew Buckingham, Luisa Lambri, Tacita Dean, and Liisa Roberts, with a new work about the Aalto-designed Vyborg library. ...more

Wegener was one of the most striking actors in the German theatre from 1906 until his death in 1948. At a very early stage he mastered the new pictorial language of the cinema, as a leading performer, director and author of many imaginative films. ...more