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Photo Essay: Berlin’s East Side Gallery at Night

I was overwhelmed with all the options in Berlin. There is so much to do and see while in Berlin that you'll never have enough time to see it all. And this is especially true when it comes to art: Berlin has so many museums and galleries that it would take you a lifetime to see them all. All these museums and galleries combined with wonderful street art and an unstoppable artistic scene, make Berlin THE place to be when you're into art. As an art geek I couldn't have been more excited about going to Berlin this summer. Unfortunately, [...]

By Julika|2013-09-28T23:06:54+02:002013/09/23|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Art, Berlin, Germany, Photo Essay|6 Comments

Photo Essay: The Transition Season

I'm a summer girl through and through, but as the leaves slowly start to change I'm reminded of how much I love fall. It's not only the beautiful bright orange leaves, the mysterious morning fog, and the smell of rain on the still slightly warm concrete of the streets -- it's the feeling of fall that I love. Somehow, fall is very melancholic time of the year. As the year is about to end, colors, memories, and warmth are fading away. The forests aren't as colorful as they will be in October, but the greens start to glimmer yellowish already. [...]

By Julika|2013-09-19T23:37:14+02:002013/09/08|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Europe, Germany, Photo Essay|18 Comments

Photo Essay: Musée Rodin in Paris

Paris has some of the most amazing museums of the world, and when re-visited Paris for the third time earlier this summer, I challenged myself to see as many museums as possible. But the weather was so perfect that I didn't want spend too much time inside crowded and gloomy museum hallways -- summer in Paris is just too magical to not experience it outside. So I was really glad when my lovely museum date Edna suggested that we should go see Musée Rodin. This museum in the 7th arrondissement wasn't originally on the list of museums I wanted to [...]

By Julika|2013-08-31T21:11:26+02:002013/08/27|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Art, Europe, France, Museums, Paris, Photo Essay|9 Comments

Photo Essay: The Island of Krk

A few days ago I started skimming through the photos I took in Croatia last fall, and I realized that I really miss Croatia. The warm sunshine, the smell of pine woods, the soft clicking sound of the walnuts falling off trees at night, the delicious nutty pastries, and strong coffees. Last year was my first time in Croatia and I must admit that I was skeptical at first. There was such much fuss about Croatia throughout the last years, that I really don't know anyone who hasn't loved Croatia. For me, it was almost hyped a little too much. [...]

By Julika|2013-08-24T13:54:10+02:002013/08/19|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Croatia, Europe, Photo Essay|7 Comments

Photo Essay: The Castle of Braunfels

Usually, I don't like German clichés as I'm the walking opposite of a typical German (despite my hair color maybe): I don't eat meat, I prefer wine over beer, I'm horribly chaotic and I'm never ever on time. But I feel like there is one cliché about the country of Germany itself which really is true: Germany has an insane amount of castles. The little town where I went to school has a castle. I can see a castle from my parent's kitchen window. On the way to my summer job I drive by two other castles. During my undergrad [...]

By Julika|2013-08-19T23:48:38+02:002013/08/14|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Architecture, Europe, Germany, medieval, Photo Essay|7 Comments

Photo Essay: Sainte-Chapelle in Paris

Every once in a while I just have to go back to the roots. Back to my roots as an art historian. I can't go too long without writing about my beloved Gothic cathedrals. If you have read my little art historical background you know that I decided to become an art historian while being moved to tears in the shimmering ambulatory of Basilique Saint Denis, one of the most magnificent Gothic cathedrals of all times. Medieval churches are my favorite places, my emotional safe havens. They are places to calm down, to think, to catch your breath, to be still. To [...]

By Julika|2015-05-11T09:10:56+02:002013/08/07|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Architecture, churches, Europe, France, medieval, Paris, Photo Essay|14 Comments

Photo Essay: Picture-Perfect Potsdam

This past weekend I escaped on a spontaneous weekend trip to Berlin and its famous neighboring city Potsdam. Before I start putting my overwhelming Berlin impressions into words I wanted to introduce the beautiful city of Potsdam -- to give it the attention it deserves. Potsdam was the royal residency of the kingdom of Prussia and the former royal glamour can be seen all over the city. Potsdam is dominated by palaces and parks that have been proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the 1990ies. Although the city center itself is gorgeously renovated, the most renowned part of Potsdam [...]

By Julika|2013-08-17T14:01:07+02:002013/07/30|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Architecture, Europe, Germany, Photo Essay|7 Comments

Photo Essay: Summer in Germany

I don't really share a lot about what my life looks like when I don't travel. I currently live in-between Cologne and Frankfurt, in the official middle of nowhere -- and I don't consider my life to be really interesting right now, because it consists out of two things: Waiting for my Master's thesis evaluation coming in so that I can finally start planning my very last oral exam, and working. Yes, after "traveling up" all my savings this year I'm working full-time again. Don't worry, it's only for the summer and I'm not becoming a grown-up just yet. But I [...]

By Julika|2013-07-30T06:04:13+02:002013/07/22|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Europe, Germany, Photo Essay, thoughts|10 Comments

Photo Essay: Medieval Bruges

If I look back on the cities I traveled to this year, I'm surprised how I managed to stick to my (unintended) theme of gorgeous cities with canals and a medieval center -- Nuremberg, Strasbourg, Colmar, and even Paris are all places with an exciting medieval history and I adored visiting all of them. Although I probably described their outer features very much alike, for me, they was totally different: Nuremberg's medieval history was overshadowed by anti-Semitism, Strasbourg and Colmar have always had a special geographical position due to their location right in-between France and Germany. I don't know when [...]

By Julika|2013-08-07T09:22:39+02:002013/07/16|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Architecture, Belgium, Bruges, medieval, Photo Essay|2 Comments

Photo Essay: Canal Saint-Martin – The Different Paris

We've all seen 'those' Paris photos: The unmistakable landmarks, the fancy cafés and the wide boulevards. And although I truly adore all these features of the stunning French capital, I've always longed to see another Paris -- to look beyond the picture-perfect façades of ornamental balconies and beyond what first-time visitors see of Paris. For my visit to Paris last month, I booked a hostel located near Place de la République which turned out to be the perfect location to explore an entirely different kind of Paris: Canal Saint-Martin. To be honest, until recently, I didn't even know that Paris had [...]

By Julika|2013-08-03T18:31:56+02:002013/07/08|Categories: Art History, Photo Essay|Tags: Europe, France, Paris, Photo Essay|6 Comments