DOI article:
Küfner, Hans: What the Athens of the Isar offers - München als Stätte der Kunst und Kultur
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7099#0020
Creative Hands
No. 737
• Above: Sun-dial; Dia! and Indicator in ßrass, Signs of the Zodiac in Nickel-Plate. Below: Automobile
Placques (Signs of the Zodiac)
Designed and executed : Lorenz Durner, Gold and Silversmith, Munich
^Oben: Astronomische Sonnenuhr, Ziffernblatt und Zeiger Duranametall, Ziffern Kupfer, Tierkreiszeichen
Neusilber. Unten: Autopiaketten, astronomische Tierkreiszeichen
Entwurf und Ausführung: Lorenz Durner, Gold- und Silberschmied, München
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• The Sciences are well cared for in Munich at the University, the Academy of Science
(founded 170 years ago) and numerous other excellent institutions which enjoy the most
up-to-date equipment and the Services of specially qualified instructors.
• The University is one of the largest and best known in Germany, and has been the
Alma Mater of several famous scholars and scientists. Munich is particularly well known
for its achievement in the department of chemistry. The University which possesses a
chemical laborotory of great reputation, being attended by a number of students from
various foreign countries. The city's activities in the sphere of chemistry and scientific
research has been facilitated by generous aid from the Rockfellor Foundation.
• It was Ludwig I. who, in the early part of the Nineteenth Century, constructed the wide
streets, the spacious Squares and most of the massive buildings which give the
No. 737
• Above: Sun-dial; Dia! and Indicator in ßrass, Signs of the Zodiac in Nickel-Plate. Below: Automobile
Placques (Signs of the Zodiac)
Designed and executed : Lorenz Durner, Gold and Silversmith, Munich
^Oben: Astronomische Sonnenuhr, Ziffernblatt und Zeiger Duranametall, Ziffern Kupfer, Tierkreiszeichen
Neusilber. Unten: Autopiaketten, astronomische Tierkreiszeichen
Entwurf und Ausführung: Lorenz Durner, Gold- und Silberschmied, München
Continued from Page 17)
• The Sciences are well cared for in Munich at the University, the Academy of Science
(founded 170 years ago) and numerous other excellent institutions which enjoy the most
up-to-date equipment and the Services of specially qualified instructors.
• The University is one of the largest and best known in Germany, and has been the
Alma Mater of several famous scholars and scientists. Munich is particularly well known
for its achievement in the department of chemistry. The University which possesses a
chemical laborotory of great reputation, being attended by a number of students from
various foreign countries. The city's activities in the sphere of chemistry and scientific
research has been facilitated by generous aid from the Rockfellor Foundation.
• It was Ludwig I. who, in the early part of the Nineteenth Century, constructed the wide
streets, the spacious Squares and most of the massive buildings which give the