After three years of construction, the Toggenburg Sound House on Lake Schwendi above Wildhaus SG is about to open. The 23.3 million Swiss franc building is intended to become an important place for music and culture as a walk-in instrument. On Monday, media representatives were given an insight into the building as well as a musical taster. St. Gallen councillors Susanne Hartmann (center) and Laura Bucher (SP) also travelled to Schwendisee for the media conference. The Klanghaus is a visionary project that cannot be found anywhere else, explained Hartmann. The wooden building with its unconventional shape contains four sound rooms. Two outdoor stages allow music experiments to be carried out in the open air. Thanks to the incomparable acoustics, both professional musicians and amateurs will travel to Toggenburg for rehearsals, courses, workshops and seminars. This should have a positive impact on the economy, tourism and society. The official opening will take place on May 24 and 25. A pair of large medieval German panels that have belonged to the same family for more than 500 years are to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Old Master & 19th Century Paintings evening sale in London on 3 July. Painted by Bartholomäus Zeitblom (1455-1518), they are expected to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000. The donor couple portrayed on what were originally the wings of an altarpiece for the St. Anna Chapel in the southern German town of Schwendi are Wilhelm von Schwendi, who died in 1522, and Barbara Krafft von Dellmensingen. The consignor is a direct descendant of Krafft von Dellmensingen, who died in 1538.“It is very unusual for artworks to stay in the family of the donors for such a long time,” says George Gordon, Sotheby’s Co-Chairman, Worldwide Old Master paintings. Sotheby’s says that the altarpiece was commissioned in around 1500. Zeitblom is known to have moved to Ulm by 1482, and remained there until his death, carrying out commissions for wealthy families in the region. “There are a lot of portraits from this era, but very few of them are attributable to an artist,” Gordon says. “The vast majority of artists of this era are anonymous.” In 1758, members of the Krafft von Dellmensingen family removed the panels from the altarpiece and took them to their home—a step that may have saved them from Napoleon’s plunder, Gordon says. It also accounts for what he describes as their “lovely condition.” In 1963, the missing panels in the church were replaced with modern replicas. “These panels not only have an unbroken provenance since their creation but are also among the best-preserved donors panels by the Ulm master that still exist today,” the Sotheby’s catalogue note states. news29 November 2019Rediscovered Rubens to star in Sotheby's Old Masters sale in New York Painting depicting the Holy Family in an evening landscape has been owned by a Manhattan family for more than 60 years news3 July 2024Jordaens painting to be sold after settlement with heirs of Jewish bank shareholdersThe work was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold College 2023-24: Named All-GLIAC Honorable Mention … GLIAC Academic Excellence Team … Was undefeated in GLIAC doubles matches in the No 3 position … Partnered with Emily Rose on six of the wins and Caoimhe McDonnell in the other … Held a 5-2 GLIAC singles record with three wins at No Appeared in two singles matches and two doubles matches for the Huskies.. 2 with Neva Manas...GLIAC Academic Excellence Team.. 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top of the mountain giving us a view of some of the open terrain along the way we could either venture another 400 vertical feet up the High-Country T-bar or ski down about 800 vertical feet to the bottom of the Northside Chair Top-to-bottom skiing was sadly not available but the resort hopes to provide this in the next couple of days Downloading on the Tecumseh Express with skis off was mandatory at the end of the day High Country T-bar provided access to a park Northside gave access to the other remaining few trails The coverage at the top of the mountain was great on all 12 groomed trails that were open perfect for shaking the dust off of those bump skills The coverage on the natural runs was a bit thin as the mountain had only received about two feet of natural accumulation this season and it was a treat to have access to them this early in the season including the Schwendi Hutte at the top of the mountain and the Freestyle Lounge and Marketplace at the base area We had a great lunch at the Freestyle Lounge which offered a great menu composed of different gourmet sandwiches with the natural trails being my favorite by far My skis had a few close calls with rocks and roots but the bases were still fine at the end of the day when the groomers were starting to get a little scraped off in spots from skier traffic We rode the Northside Chair to the top of the mountain once more Waterville Valley aims to open top to bottom this week combined with the possibility of natural snow accumulation this Thursday/Friday should allow them to expand terrain quickly Tickets will still be priced at early season rates with an adult day ticket and a child day ticket currently costing $74 online and $63 Take advantage of these early season rates and get out on the mountain The French province of Alsace stands like a flower-child referee between Germany and France This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Material from 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