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Rolf Jährling
Rudolf Wolfgang Jährling (October 27, 1913July 5, 1991) was a German architect, Art dealer, gallery owner and one of the first patrons of the Rhenish avant-garde. In 1949, he founded Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, which, together with Galerie Schmela and Galerie 22 in Düsseldorf and Galerie Der Spiegel in Cologne, was one of the most daring galleries in post-war Germany and was closely associated with the Informalism, Art Informel movement in its early days. Galerie Parnass at Moltkestraße 67 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, where the gallery was located from 1961 to 1965, was the venue for the first Happening and Fluxus events on German soil. It wrote international art history with its spectacular media art events and exhibitions in the early 1960s. In Nam June Paik's solo exhibition ''Exposition of Music - Electronic Television'', the first video objects were shown in 1963, and at the ''24-hour Happening'' of 1965, the performances of the Paik muse and Fluxus cellist Charlotte Moorman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
