Pennsylvania German Arts and Antiques

Pennsylvania German Arts on Exhibit at Reading Public Museum

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 "A Cultural Celebration: Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans," from a Berks County private collection, opens at the Reading Public Museum on Saturday, June 12, and will be on view through Sunday, Sept. 26."

"The works are in a variety of media, dating largely from the 18th and 19th centuries."

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Paint Decoration Workshop at Mennonite Heritage Center in Franconia

"Workshop instructor Jim King has a B.A. in art from Goshen College, Goshen, Ind., and is a Ten Thousand Villages store designer. He currently sells his work at craft shows in the east, including the Pennsylvania German Folk Art Sale at the Mennonite Heritage Center."

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Don and Trish Herr: Their New Website

Lancaster County's Don and Trish Herr have a new website up and running.

The site showcases terrific Pennsylania German arts and antiques.  And it's all available for purchase.  So now you can create an instant collection.

Their website is Here.

You'll need some rare daylily cultivars to go with your new collection of Pennsylvania German objets d'art.

You can get those daylilies from Don at his website Here.  Don creates stunningly-beauteous Hemerocallis hybrids.  So now you can have exceptional Pennsylvania daylilies to go with your exceptional Pennsylvania art.

The Shelley Auction at "Antiques and the Arts Online"

"From Lancaster County, the carved walnut schrank was a sale highlight ..."

"Said Barquist, 'There are only a few dated Pennsylvania German pieces from the 1760s. Stylistically, this schrank shows a direct transfer of the high baroque style from Germany to Pennsylvania. It is a Germanic piece of furniture presumably made by an immigrant. Later Pennsylvania German furniture represents a hybrid of influences.'"

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Philadelphia Antique Show this Weekend

"In all, 56 dealers from around the country will participate, many with booths that resemble furnished rooms complete with furniture, paintings, mirrors, rugs, silver and other elaborate decorations."

"M. Finkel and Daughter, Pine Street, Philadelphia dealers, will exhibit the antique samplers and silk embroideries that are their specialty. Other dealers will show miniatures, art deco and art nouveau pieces."

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Winterthur & Pennsylvania German Stuff on Exhibit in Minneapolis

"The Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Among the earliest collecting interests of du Pont and one of the great strengths of the Winterthur collection are the colorful decorative arts of the German settlers of eastern Pennsylvania."

"This section offers cupboards filled with boldly decorated pottery, chests painted and inlaid with symbolic images of flowers and birds, woven coverlets and quilts, and illuminated manuscripts called fraktur, which served as paper records of marriages, births, and house blessings."

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Leo Rauch's Carved Christmas Decorations

"But the real attraction is the array of carved figures created by Leo, 74, a man whose talents might never have been discovered if he hadn't gone on disability from an Allentown battery company a couple of decades ago."

He's like a Pennsylvania Dutch Geppetto."

'''Aye yi yi,' his wife said."

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The "Reading Eagle" Reports on the Horst Auction

"Listed as “fine, rare and unique” was a late-19th-century Folk Art miniature paint-decorated Lehnware covered berry pail by Joseph Lehn of Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, which was picked up for $8,000 in a left bid. From the same period, a Lehn turned wood egg cup decorated with red strawberries blossomed to $1,500, and a saffron box with peony like designs wilted to $1,000."

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John Long and John Boyer Featured in "Antiques and the Arts Online"

"John Long and John Boyer: Nineteenth Century Craftsmen in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," an exhibit at the Lancaster Cultural History Museum of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County through December 31, presents recent discoveries that have shed new light on the significance of two Lancaster County craftsmen working in the Pennsylvania German tradition. A booklet of the same name accompanies the exhibition."

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PA Dutch Musical Instruments in Monroe County

"The Monroe County Historical Association will host its final lecture in its series at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Stroud Mansion, 900 Main St., Stroudsburg."

"Keith Brintzenhoff, a commonwealth speaker, will discuss music, dance and instruments of the Pennsylvania Germans. Brintzenhoff will explain the roles that guitar, harmonica, mountain dulcimer, banjo and autoharp played in Pennsylvania German music tradition."

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Scheitholt and dulcimer information here.

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