"Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, und leider auch Theologie durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn."
A man carries an elderly woman as Ukrainian civilians flee on a makeshift path under a bombed bridge over the Irpin River near Kyiv, March 2022. (VOA photo) — (See also: Civilians cross the Irpin River.)
Villa of German Secessionist painter Max Liebermann (1847-1935), designed by the artist, expropriated by the Nazis during World War II, and since 2006 a museum. The works of Liebermann, who was of Jewish descent, were labeled by the Nazis as "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst). Today some are exhibited at this museum, others at the Alte Nationalgalerie and other museums. (Photo: A. Savin, 2014)
Wellenburger Allee is a linden tree-bordered lane in Bavarian Swabia, and a protected landscape feature of the City of Augsburg. It leads to the 16th century Wellenburg Castle. Most of the trees (Tilia cordata), known in English as either lime or linden trees, were planted between 1840 and 1920. (2013 photo)
Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) was a Russian painter considered creator of the lyrical landscape style. The son of a merchant, he began to draw and paint as a child. At age 14, he entered art school in Moscow. In 1857, Savrasov became an instructor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg, where his students included Isaac Levitan. This Moonlit Night dates from the 1880s. Savrasov died in 1897, aged 67.