Warum ist es am Rhein so schoen?
It was English travellers and artists who, at the end of the 18th century on their way to Italy, discovered the Middle Rhine between Bonn and Mainz as a landscape and made it famous in travel literature and drawings: the medieval castles, ruins, picturesque villages, rocks and vineyards. Still today this picture of the Middle Rhine, designed by Lord Byron and William Turner, for example, shapes our view of this section of the river.
Wir wandeln uns. Die Schiffer inbegriffen.
Der Rhein ist reguliert und eingedämmt.
Die Zeit vergeht. Man stirbt nicht mehr beim Schiffen,
bloß weil ein blondes Weib sich dauernd kämmt.
Exhibition "bilderstrom - Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853", the series is part of the collection of the LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, 2016
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