Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most...
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rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and...
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up fraktur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fraktur is a specific style of blackletter typeface. Fraktur may also refer to: Fraktur (folk art), a...
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Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
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Folk art in the United States developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the Revolutionary War when settlers revived artistic traditions...
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am Rhei' mundartliche Gedichte aus der hessischen Pfalz. p. 112. "Fraktur Folk Art". publicdomainreview.org. Retrieved May 1, 2024. Merritt George Yorgey...
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however, and believe the hex signs are the natural progression of German fraktur art. (need better citation for this claim) The 1988 film Apprentice to Murder...
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that features an exhibit gallery with a special collection of fraktur folk art Fraktur. The log farmhouse is located on the site of a former church, demolished...
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Distelfink (category American art)
Dutch folk art. It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in fraktur. The word...
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Crested Swans (category American folk art)
his other works of art, Crested Swans features designs popular in German folk art, specifically Pennsylvania German folk art, Fraktur. Scholl's works take...
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