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St. Petersburg with its art treasures: the Hermitage (about 3 million exhibits from the Stone Age to the present), the Russian Museum (historical icons to modern art) and with an extra house, the international Ludwig Collection Part, Manifesta 10 (28.6 .-31.08.2013) and over 500 museums including the Erarta Museum (contemporary Art – www.erarta.com -, 2, 29ste line, VO, Metro: Vasileostrovskaja (Ostrow), hours: 10-22 clock, Tuesday closed) I really liked! Many palaces, castles – including Tsarskoye Selo with the Amber Room and Peterhof with several gardens more beautiful than Versailles – some galleries, art projects and start-ups as well as many rich churches. The deepest-lying Metro and the Neva, more bridges than Venice, universities and jazz clubs and …
I was from 10 to 23 July 2014 during my participation in the exhibition at the Second International Triennial of Graphic Art in St. Petersburg and began my „program“ the day of arrival to 24 clock with a visit of the Neva Embankment, where because of the „White Nights“ many people to „Celebrate met“ the bridge openings …
Title picture: Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and Galleries, Photos: E. Hartwig, 07/2014
Leipzig
A trip to Leipzig you can always recommended.
Thonet rocking chair, Photo: B: Hauschild
Here I was in mid-May in the Old Spinning – there in different galleries: EIGEN + ART, b2, Josef Filipp, ASPN, Lia, ESTACE LEIPZIG, Kleindienst, Jochen Hempel, Dukan Leipzig-Paris, WERKSCHAU, maerzgalerie. Is always recommended!
And for Bentwood-lovers (like me) is to 09/14/2014 the special „seats – couches – swings, furniture by Thonet“ in the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts – a MUST!
Mixer tap in the Old Spinning Alten Spinnerei, Leipzig, Photo: E. Hartwig on 17/05/2014