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Rhine Bridges
Thomas Riehle
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Description for Rhine Bridges
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 200 illus. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 240. Weight in Grams: 2130.
Text in English & German. Manfred Sack, in an essay about bridges: The Latin word relegere' means to connect. The assumption is that this is the basis of the word religion. The chief priest in Rome was the pontifex maximus, the highest builder of bridges between man and god, between this world and the other world'. The Germanic tribes saw the bridge in the rainbow physically before them, it was their road of light to Valhalla. For those who are disheartened, drugs are the bridge of escape into other, very illusory, worlds of experience. Tradition builds bridges from yesterday to ... Read more
Text in English & German. Manfred Sack, in an essay about bridges: The Latin word relegere' means to connect. The assumption is that this is the basis of the word religion. The chief priest in Rome was the pontifex maximus, the highest builder of bridges between man and god, between this world and the other world'. The Germanic tribes saw the bridge in the rainbow physically before them, it was their road of light to Valhalla. For those who are disheartened, drugs are the bridge of escape into other, very illusory, worlds of experience. Tradition builds bridges from yesterday to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681741
SKU
V9783936681741
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About Thomas Riehle
The son of an architect, Riehle was born in 1949 in Triberg in the Black Forest, studied industrial design at the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung in Essen from 1971 until 1975 and fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1975 until 1980. In Düsseldorf he was the protégé of the sculptor Erwin Heerich, who created highly noted buildings on the Museum ... Read more
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