Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in ...

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Berlin on the latest sensation to hit the city's avant-garde art scene. Performance artist Wolfgang Flatz drew a crowd of 7,000 spectators as he dangled naked from a ...

A German art museum worker and aspiring artist hoping for a big break got the sack after he smuggled in one of his own paintings and hung it up in the gallery — home to famous pieces by renowned ...

THE hallmark of German art at its best, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, has been its strong design and sure draftsmanship. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long history of great ...

German museum spotlights the art of soccer during Euro 2024 By Reuters June 28, 20243:09 AM PDTUpdated June 28, 2024 ...

It may not, on the surface, seem like an obvious connection, but German studies scholar Birgit Tautz saw great learning potential for her students when she heard about an exhibition of Oceanic masks ...

Birkenstock, which is headquartered in Linz am Rhein, Germany, and says its tradition of shoemaking goes back to 1774, filed a lawsuit against three competitors who sold sandals that were very ...

Artist Nolde, father of German “Expressionism,” lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of “Degenerate Art ...

Entertainment German court rejects collector’s complaint against listing in Nazi-era lost art database July 21, 2023 at 2:26 am By The Associated Press ...

A German court is putting its foot down. Birkenstocks are not art. Birkenstocks are cool enough for influencers, Hollywood stars and even Barbie — but they do not qualify as art, Germany’s top ...

Under German law, works of art enjoy stronger and longer-lasting intellectual property protections than consumer products. FILE -Birkenstock sandals are pictured in Birkenstock store in Frankfurt ...