Description: Reclus03_58 1878 Reclus print WARTBURG CASTLE, THÜRINGEN, GERMANY, #58 Nice print titled La Wartburg, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. page size is 27 x 18 cm, approx. image size is 18.5 x 13 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol., 1875-94 (in English: The Earth and Its Inhabitants, 1878-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Wartburg castle renowned in German history and legend standing on a steep hill overlooking the town of Eisenach, Thuringia, Ger. The hill was fortified as early as 1080. The landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia (died 1217) rebuilt the castle and made it the seat of a lively court frequented by vagrant poets and musicians, including Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach. The character of Hermann's Wartburg was recalled, a generation or two later, in the poem known as the Sängerkrieg, in which poets compete in singing their rival patrons' praises. Richard Wagner adapted the story for his opera Tannhäuser (1845). From 1485 the castle and the surrounding lands belonged to the Ernestine dukes of Saxony. The elector Frederick III of Saxony sheltered Martin Luther in the Wartburg from May 1521 to March 1522, and Luther began his German translation of the original Greek New Testament there. In 1817 the Wartburg was the scene of a festival celebrating the Luther tercentenary. A nationalist demonstration by Protestant German students led to repressive measures by governments of the conservative German states. Charles Alexander of the Ernestine house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818–1901) was the chief sponsor of a great restoration of the Wartburg, which had decayed since Luther's time. The castle includes the Romanesque palace of the Thuringian landgraves.
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Style: Realism
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1878
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Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Print Type: Engraving
Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
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