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2. Fraktur (folk art) - Wikipedia

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   Country. United States. Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860. Fraktur drawings were executed in ink and/or watercolors and are found in a wide variety of forms: the Vorschriften ...

3. Pennsylvania German Society - Wikipedia

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   Like the Pennsylvania German Society, the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society issued annual volumes, the first in 1936 covering dialect poems of Charles Calvin Ziegler, papers by Joseph Downs on the Millbach House and on the Pennsylvania German Galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a paper by W. J. Hinke and J. B. Stoudt on German ...

4. Tole painting - Wikipedia

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   Tole painting. Tole painting is the folk art of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture. Typical metal objects include utensils, coffee pots, and similar household items. Wooden objects include tables, chairs, and chests, including hope chests, toyboxes and jewelry boxes. [1]

5. Distelfink - Wikipedia

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   Distelfink. An ornate Taufschein, or baptismal certificate, bordered by two distelfinks. A distelfink is a stylized goldfinch, probably based on the European variety. [1] It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. [2] It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and ...

6. Scherenschnitte - Wikipedia

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   Scherenschnitte (German pronunciation: [ˈʃeːʁənˌʃnɪtə]), which means "scissor cuts" in German, is the art of paper cutting design. The artwork often has rotational symmetry within the design, and common forms include silhouettes, valentines, and love letters. The art tradition was founded in Switzerland and Germany in the 16th century ...

7. Johannes Ernst Spangenberg - Wikipedia

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   Johannes Ernst (sometimes Ernestus) Spangenberg (1755–1814) was an American fraktur artist. Spangenberg was for many years called the "Easton Bible artist" because he decorated a Bible for the German Reformed church located in Easton, Pennsylvania. Most of his pieces were created for children in the vicinities of Easton and Greenwich Township ...

8. Crested Swans - Wikipedia

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   These symbols appear specifically in the many chests popular in early Pennsylvania German folk art. Understanding folk art requires knowledge of ways in which culture shapes traditions. As a result of his time spent in Germany as a child, Scholl’s woodworkings take heavy inspiration from German folk art, including motifs, symbols, and parts ...

9. Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center - Wikipedia

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   The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is a not-for-profit historical library, archive, and museum located in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Its mission is to "protect, preserve and interpret books, manuscripts and artifacts of the Schwenkfelders and the people of southeastern Pennsylvania in general and the Perkiomen Valley in particular." [1]