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Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Power

14. November 2025 to 7. June 2026

12 November 2025 | 11 am

Press Tour “Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Power”

(14 November 2025 to 7 June 2026)

Press material about the exhibition

the miniature ‚The Cosmic Egg‘ from Hildegard of Bingen

Miniature of the “Cosmic Egg” from the Rupertsberg Scivias Codex of Hildegard of Bingen, ca. 1175 (original lost, hand-drawn copy on parchment, ca. 1930)

© Abtei St. Hildegard, Rüdesheim-Eibingen

Depiction of a market scene with fish sellers and visitors in a medieval townscape

Ulrich von Richental, Sale of Fish during the Council of Constance (1414–1418), in: Chronicle of the Council of Constance, Constance, ca. 1465

© Rose Garden Museum Constance

Depiction of early potato plants with tubers

Carl Wilhelm Ernst Putsche (1765–1834), Tentative Monography of Potatoes, panel 3, The Early Potato, Weimar, 1819

© Deutsches Historisches Museum

Depiction of children and caregivers outdoors, with a house in the background

A children’s care centre in Berlin with Lina Morgenstern in the middle, woodcut, 1872

© Privately owned

Depiction of various radiolarians of the Cyrtoidea group in black and white

Ernst Haekel, Illustration of the Cyrtoidea with Alacorys bismarckii (centre left), panel 31, in: Art Forms of Nature, Leipzig/Vienna, 1904

© FSU Jena: Ernst Haeckel Haus

Depiction of mounted soldiers with dogs wearing gas masks

Rudolf Eberle, Gas Warfare, in: Vogesenwacht, No. 6, 1916

© Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, signature: 4" Krieg 1914/24644-1916

Image of Lotte Lasterstein in front of a motorcycle

Lotte Laserstein, On the Mototcycle, 1929

© Deutsches Historisches Museum

Prisoned persons in forced labor at the granite quarries

Erich Mercker, Flossenbürg Granite Quarry, 1938/1941

© Deutsches Historisches Museum

Protest march against the Marckolsheim lead chemical plant and the Wyhl nuclear power plant, 1974

Protest march against the lead chemical factory in Marckolsheim and the nuclear power plant in Wyhl, 1974

photo: Bernd Nössler

Graphic: VISUAL SPACE AGENCY & STUDIO BENS

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