Art Pursuits 2022 brochure

GERMANY
SWABIA
Art & history between Augsburg and Stuttgart
Blaubeuren Abbey
Present-day ‘Schwaben’ encompasses parts of the German federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. To
many Germans, Swabia is the land of the thrifty, of wheeler-dealers and inventors: the Fuggers of Augsburg were once
the world’s mightiest bankers, while today the Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall is Germany’s biggest building society;
Mercedes and Porsche are both based in Stuttgart, and Albert Einstein hailed from Ulm. Yet, in terms of cultural tourism
— apart from the odd stopping point on the renowned Romantic Road — the region between Augsburg and Stuttgart
has quite unjustly been left off the international itinerary. A paleolithic lion man, carved from a mammoth tusk, ‘roars’
in Ulm, while wonderful 15th-Century wood and stone carvings await in the picture-perfect towns of Nördlingen and
Blaubeuren. Augsburg, home of the Holbein family of painters, will present itself as a proud Renaissance metropolis
with outstanding museums, while James Stirling’s postmodernist Staatsgalerie at Stuttgart and the Sammlung Würth
in Schwäbisch Hall harbour first-class collections of 20th-Century art. Mediaeval churches dominate the centres of
Ulm and Schwäbisch Gmünd, while Baroque abbeys and Rococo pilgrimage churches at Wiblingen, Günzburg and
Neresheim adorn the lovely countryside of rolling hills and dramatic rock formations of the Swabian Jura. This Art
Pursuits Abroad Study Tour will introduce you to an underrated part of Germany and enhance your knowledge of
German art and culture from pre-history to the present.
40 To book call 01280 736 115 or visit artpursuits.com