In 2015, Andreas Herzau spent one entire year regularly visiting the Francke Foundations in Halle. His focus was not so much on the remarkable architecture of Francke’s ›school town‹ as the people in this historical space today, shaping life in the Francke Foundations’ educational cosmos. Each photograph is a narrative, asking the viewer to read the story it tells. The images do not only portray…
Second, revised and expanded edition.This book is published in German.
In 1698, August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) founded the famous art and natural history collection at the orphanage to provide a space for the practical lessons he had introduced. Intended from the outset as a collection open to the public, but especially for the practical teaching of school classes at the foundations, this…
The library of the Francke Foundations in Halle is one of the most precious treasures that August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) left to posterity. Its significant historical collection is housed in Germany's oldest purpose-built library, on the original 18th-century shelves. By 1721, the library, which began as a small collection of books for students at the end of the 17th century, already…
The Nuremberg miniature painter Johann Daniel Meyer (1713–1757) published his three-volume work Angenehmer und nützlicher Zeit=Vertreib mit Betrachtung curioser Vorstellungen allerhand kriechender, fliegender und schwimmender Thiere [...] als auch [...] ihrer Scelete oder Bein=Cörper (Pleasant and useful pastime with observations of curious representations of all kinds of crawling, flying and…
The Francke Foundations in Halle offer a chance to explore a unique historical ensemble of social and educational architecture from the early modern period. Founded by pastor, theologian and educationalist August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), the extraordinary project of his remarkable school town began in 1698 when work started on his Orphanage, the heart of the entire ensemble – later called the…
Der Katalog vermittelt eine Vorstellung von den »weltweiten« Beziehungen und Aktivitäten August Hermann Franckes (1663–1727) zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, die damals für einen bürgerlichen deutschen Theologen ganz außergewöhnlich waren. Francke verstand sein Wirken universal und zielte damit auch auf eine länderübergreifende Wirkung seines Handelns. Die Katalogbeiträge beschränken sich mit der…
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